Example sentences of "drag on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings invariably dragged on for eighteen months . |
| 2 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 4 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 5 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 6 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 7 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 8 | After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months , lasting well into 1903 . |
| 9 | The arguments dragged on for 11 months , during which time the orangs were looked after by volunteers , many of whom were recent graduates in biology from the National University in Jakarta . |
| 10 | The result was controversy between Vienna and St Petersburg which dragged on for two decades . |
| 11 | An hour of wall-to-wall Carpeting would have been perfect , but they would n't get offstage , and dragged on for another 30 minutes . |
| 12 | The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed . |
| 13 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |