Negotiations to form a new government will probably take at least several weeks.

Negotiations have been taking place for the last two months.

The negotiations would take place by the end of 1988.

But the negotiations had taken a turn he didn't expect.

I hope that the negotiations will not take too long.

The fact is that no serious negotiations have taken place.

Negotiations to end the conflict took nearly two years from 1848 to 1849.

They are central to the question of whether negotiations can ever take place between both sides.

No doubt the negotiations would take some time to work out.

Negotiations could take a long time - all winter, as I said before.