After three years and a very long engagement the two finally get married.

You'll have a long engagement, get to know each other.

They've been together for 10 years but were married only after a very long engagement.

There isn't anything that says we can't have a long engagement, get to know each other better.

A long engagement is ever so much more fun than a short one.

After two long engagements, she is "single and fine with it."

That's the real reason you insisted on a long engagement, isn't it?

There are those who feel, however, that, at the end of this long engagement, marriage is no longer on the agenda.

They are the first "black orchestra to fill such a long engagement".

At any rate, said I, it will be better than a long engagement.