"It's going to be a long drawn out job to get it to where we want it to be, " he said.
This is my final interview in what has been a long drawn out process and I wanted to close the deal.
Det Insp Kevin Hayward said the sentencing followed a "long drawn out investigation" by the Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team.
We still believe that the real cost of capital is too low, and hence expect a long drawn out rate hiking cycle into 2012.
This is a conversation that can not be summed up simply, it is a long drawn out discussion to have to cover every single point.
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My mother knew that part of our gift giving ritual was a way to spend time with each other- I come from a family that has a long drawn out gifting ritual.
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This is a long, drawn out process and the demands of the day are heavy and the days are long.
Peace negotiations, in other words, are likely to be long and drawn out.
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However, Merck's legal battle is expected to be long and drawn out.
The bitter irony is this long-drawn out debate comes when the internet - which, being global, has no regulatory restraints - is driving newspapers out of business.
For what they perceive as extravagance is always less costly in lives and treasure than the long drawn-out wars it deters altogether or shortens with quick victories.
On Wednesday morning, talk had already begun of a long, drawn out period of deliberation at the Security Council which could last weeks or months or even longer.
Warsaw's response has been to draw closer to the United States, by rapidly concluding an agreement in long drawn-out negotiations over the basing of U.S. interceptor missiles on Polish soil.
Filipinos are preparing for a long drawn-out political feud.
But she warned peers of the potential for conflict ahead, saying: "I don't believe it would be any victory to defeat these proposals by long, drawn out and bitter hand-to-hand parliamentary combat".
The trust said Mr Halsall had been seconded to the NHS Confederation, in a move which "avoided the potential for a long drawn-out dispute, that would have been both expensive and time consuming".
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Jami Rubin, a pharmaceuticals analyst with Morgan Stanley, believes New Jersey Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee has tried, through her actions and rulings, to dissuade Merck from pursuing a long and drawn out legal fight.
When President Nixon decided that the normalization of the relationship between the United States and China was essential for the peace of the region, and indeed of the world, he began a long-drawn out process which is still under way.
Watching this long drawn-out crisis, which has had so many crunch points and so much fallout for other countries, many would surely disagree with Mr Trichet's notion - that the eurozone was a basically strong economy, with a few local difficulties to sort out.
Are you looking now at a long, drawn-out period of negotiating a scaled-down package?
Some are predicting a long, drawn-out fight, leading to a possible compromise some time around dawn on Saturday morning.
"I believe we are still in a long, drawn-out conflict with al-Qaida, " Sen.
It is going to be a long and painfully drawn out legal proceeding.
The Desert Foxes' earlier defeat against Malawi may have been a hangover from their long, drawn-out World Cup campaign.
The biggest issue remains the long, drawn-out war against the separatist Tamil Tigers.
Rep. Henry Waxman said the long, drawn-out process within the office and Vice President Dick Cheney's office is demoralizing career government scientists.
Jeremy Corbyn said he feared Britain was in danger of being sucked into an "unpleasant, long-drawn-out, almost guerrilla like conflict".
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