The latter emerged only through a long-drawn-out process involving the gradual reconfiguration of the structure of a noun phrase into that of a nonfinite clause.
But in fact, as we shall see, partition was a messy, long-drawn-out process.
And many nationalist parties had been engaged in long-drawn-out struggles with those individuals and institutions very frequently stigmatized as ' feudal ', as profoundly conservative and as being essentially colonial creations.
There was a long-drawn-out argument about the protection of the breakwater.
The second reason for this crisis of confidence was the very long-drawn-out salary negotiations last year.
It is a long-drawn-out and lengthy process, and it is right that it should be a long-drawn-out process.
Because home sales will not recover of their own impetus from the consequences of this long-drawn-out economic squeeze and credit restraint.
That is a simple technique, which will replace the current long-drawn-out process, involving several appearances in court.
