In the area that had seen the most prolonged fighting, the damage would take weeks-or months-to repair.

His audience responded with the most prolonged applause of the speech.

Last year's injury was the scariest and the most prolonged.

Russia's weather forecasts said it was the most prolonged heat wave since 1981.

What follows proves to be the heaviest and most prolonged bombardment of the war.

The line drew the most prolonged response in his well-received speech.

It is among "middle class" boys, then, that the period of infancy is most prolonged.

In the last 35 years, rain caused the most prolonged trouble in 1975 and 1962.

I imagine your expiation will be one of the most prolonged in the history of cruelty.

In 1964, for example, when the state endured its most prolonged drought, there were 9.32 inches from Jan. 1 to March 16.