1. The road to peace will be long and drawn-out.

2. The negotiations were difficult and drawn-out.

3. The government wants to avoid a long drawn-out war against the rebel forces.

4. After the long drawn-out years of waiting suddenly the war was going well on all fronts and the end was in sight.

5. In January, the teams finally ended their drawn-out discussions with a map that clearly marks the boundary.

6. A drawn-out battle of wills began, with my having to stone-wall both in London and on visits to Moscow.

7. He used to be asked long, drawn-out questions that went on and on.

8. Netscape faces a long, drawn-out battle with software giant Microsoft, but Barksdale says he is up to the task.

8. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

9. Traditionally, the making of tamales is a long, drawn-out affair, requiring several hands and many hours.

10. Policy-making is inevitably, and universally, a long, drawn-out process which involves many people within the organisation.

11. Just as a drawn-out bankruptcy dissipates the value of a firm's assets, a default in which a country faces legal battles with squabbling groups of creditors weakens its capacity to repay debt.

12. This trouble with the unions has been a long drawn-out affair.

13. There had been speculation that publication of the documents would decisively alter the course of the drawn-out inquiry.

14. But the movie crawls to a halt and goes over the top in a drawn-out finale inside an empty hotel.

15. The general had held on to power for nine years, and it had been a long drawn-out battle.

16. For followers of European space affairs, the ExoMars initiative has been a long, drawn-out affair.

17. As proof of the mental taxation of love, consider the drawn-out healing process it takes to mend a broken heart.

18. Led by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), it aimed to test how the financial sector would cope with a drawn-out emergency.

19. A first edition of a Donald Duck comic book from 1948 has been held behind bars in Sweden for a year-and-a-half amid a divorcing couple's drawn-out custody battle.

20. The ADB report says that, even if the markets may have reached bottom, the eventual recovery could still be drawn-out.

21. Pulling out of a recession is a lengthy and drawn-out process.

22. Were the adrenaline-pumping protests following the Iran elections the most dramatic event?Or perhaps it was the long, drawn-out U.

23. But the episode was a losing battle in Israel's drawn-out war in 2010 to maintain its international reputation.

24. Were the adrenaline-pumping protests following the Iran elections the most dramatic event?Or perhaps it was the long, drawn-out U. S. decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.

25. The patient Bull won't have a problem plodding through educational books or drawn-out suspense thrillers.