1) It was another long-drawn-out meeting.

2) The official enquiry was a long-drawn-out process.

3) The trail was a long-drawn-out affair.

4) The war between these two countries has been long-drawn-out and episodic.

5) Netscape faces a long-drawn-out battle with software giant Microsoft.

6) This war is too one-sided to be very long-drawn-out.

7) Avoiding long-drawn-out negotiations and yet ensuring that everyone is in the know is part of the task of governors.

8) It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away, raising its hands to its mouth.

9) The long-drawn-out campaigns that precede every election in the US have already begun.

10) This long-drawn-out effort finally succeeded in 1920, and Ida Smedley was the first woman to be formally accepted into the Society.

11) His thought influenced profound and long-drawn-out.

12) The long-drawn-out sound of a flute is coming from far to near.

13) With the long-drawn-out conclusion of multilateral trade negotiations,[http:///long-drawn-out.html] China's accession to the World Trade Organization has entered a substantive phase of the operation.

14) There followed a long-drawn-out legal tussle over the compensation to be paid to the bereaved families.

15) A settlement of the long-drawn-out Cyprus dispute is anyway an essential precondition for Turkish entry.

16) After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.

17) Many contemporaries believed that Richard was unwilling to wait until the two Kings had completed their long-drawn-out preparations.

18) The battle proved to be one of the most long-drawn-out takeovers ever, involving many twists and changes of fortune.

19) Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster.

20) The moment seemed to go on for ever, impossibly long-drawn-out.

21) Mae was refused a visa and what looked like a short hiccup developed into a long-drawn-out campaign.

22) One of important factors contributing to the powerful and long-drawn-out movement in literary revivalism by the revivalists in Ming Dynasty is that they took a firm stand in literary ontology.

23) China continues to adhere to the iron ore in the long-drawn-out negotiating table, the iron ore trade in the domestic market but in the event of subtle changes.

24) Paulson at Goldman Sachs and the participation of the Guangdong Provincial Government and international creditors finally sit down and start the long-drawn-out negotiations.

25) Deadly inter-ethnic riots in March 2004 refreshed an already strong sense of hostility that long-drawn-out negotiations over Kosovo's future status failed to relieve.

26) Hung - chien bowed politely , and saying goodbye , he left , letting out a long-drawn-out " Phew. "

27) Others, like Germany, benefited from starting late, leapfrogging the long-drawn-out process that Britain went through.