lengthy wrangle

Frequency: 6.57.2 per million words

A dispute that continues for a long time.

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  • The council was involved in a lengthy planning wrangle over the height of the new skyscraper.
  • After a lengthy legal wrangle, the inheritance case was finally settled.
  • Environmental groups engaged in a lengthy wrangle with the corporation over land use.
  • The two nations have been locked in a lengthy border wrangle for decades.
  • Nobody wanted to get into a lengthy bureaucratic wrangle just to get a permit.
  • Resolving the property dispute required a lengthy family wrangle among siblings.
  • They faced a lengthy contractual wrangle after the deal unexpectedly fell through.
  • The project was significantly delayed by a lengthy political wrangle in parliament.
  • A lengthy intellectual property wrangle complicated the merger talks.
  • Despite the lengthy wrangle, a reasonable compromise was eventually reached by both parties.