This agreement still has to be passed by the Congress, and that could be a long drawn-out affair.

"We don't expect this to be a long, drawn-out affair," he told a news conference.

The demise of print looks as if it will be a long, drawn-out affair.

Dinner was a drawn-out affair because of all the chewing necessary.

The British were beginning to realize that victory in America, if it came at all, would be a hard, drawn-out affair.

Getting in- formation out of the Yakuza chief, if possible at all, would be a long, drawn-out and bloody affair.

But regardless of their opinions, many people were just glad to see the drawn-out affair coming to an end.

It is high time that all possible steps were taken to achieve a breakthrough in this long drawn-out affair.

The economic catastrophe will be a drawn-out affair but it was Enlightenment values that got us into this mess.

Because the first instants were silent, it seemed a drawn-out affair, though the process couldn't have taken more than seconds from beginning to end.