Her 'treatment lasted something in the region of three years - one of the most protracted and detailed of Freud's early cases'.

Scrutiny's earliest and most protracted campaign was against the positivism of traditional literary scholarship.

Although Rothko's work provoked the most protracted estate fight in art-world history, the sponsors of the book described the juxtaposition as coincidental.

If the case goes to trial, it could be one of the most protracted, arduous and potentially revealing criminal prosecutions in United States history.

With most refugees still living in the camps, the refugee situation is among the most protracted worldwide.

The Indians at once commenced hostilities and one of the most protracted and obstinate Indian wars of later years followed.

Then began the most protracted and terrible part of the whole interview.

That was excuse, reason and compulsion enough to demand the largest and most protracted effort they could make.

In the most protracted gag, Rebecca suffers a menstrual crisis in a supermarket that leaves rivers of blood in the aisles.

One of the most protracted and bloody episodes occurred with the People's Park riots of 1969.