Synonym: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted. Similar words: length, at length, lengthways, strength, strengthen, seeing that, living thing, challenge. Meaning: ['leŋθɪ] adj. relatively long in duration; tediously protracted.
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181. Knight has a lengthy criminal history and is currently being detained in a California prison.
182. By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules.
183. Sunrise Medical said in a lengthy report on the probe, which began in late October.
184. At the beginning of 1985, Rice began a lengthy series of field trips to various regions controlled by the marketing department.
185. A lengthy public inquiry ensued in 1984 with expert witnesses on both sides.
186. After lengthy discussion, B telephones her cousin, who is an important politician in the local government.
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189. The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.
190. After a lengthy period of care at home, she was first admitted to hospital, then to a nursing home.
191. When hungry times set in, the scouts become less fastidious and give lengthy dances even for poor food.
192. The Profitboss doesn't squander precious time writing and reading lengthy job descriptions.
193. Select Folder from the lengthy list that appears and then click on Edit.
194. Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem.
195. Transfers between databases invoke lengthy processes and have subsidiary backup and archiving implications.
196. You might not do that if you were in prison, as a lengthy quotation from Porridge reminds us.
197. Many argue that the biological effects of lengthy space travel are the biggest imponderable.
198. Lengthy lead time on procuring PreciPitators and bag-houses may extend the time frame for completion of some conversions past one year.
199. We might find that, after lengthy stays on the Moon, astronauts suffer debilitating degenerative disorders.
200. A NEW supermarket planned for Richmond was thrown out by district councillors last night after a lengthy debate and a close vote.
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202. Industry feared that even quite harmless products might have to be subjected to lengthy and costly hearings as a result.
203. Both geometric correction and image registration involve lengthy and time-consuming operations, taking several hours on a minicomputer.
204. I intend to have a thoroughly enjoyable and lengthy period without paid work.
205. After a lengthy conversation with the experienced caterer at the other end of the line you arrange to show him your establishment.
206. That means long lines and lengthy delays at skycap stations and ticket counters.
207. A lengthy course of the right medicine can cure the disease.
208. To obtain an eviction order through the courts could mean a lengthy legal process, possibly entailing adverse publicity.
209. He called for the discharge of rebels from the Army, and for courts martial and lengthy sentences for the mutineers.
210. This is quite different from the lengthy exposure to much lower levels which people receive from the nuclear industry.
More similar words: length, at length, lengthways, strength, strengthen, seeing that, living thing, challenge, challenged, pithy, filthy, earthy, apathy, worthy, wealthy, healthy, empathy, stealthy, with young, allopathy, sympathy, owing to, antipathy, belong to, long-term, longtime, bring together, according to, engulf, avenge.