The proceedings could take as long as several weeks, officials said.

Then I had no alternative but to suffer the proceedings to take their course.

All the legal proceedings took place inside a jail and were not made open to the public.

Some proceedings, especially in lawsuits between different states of the Empire, took several hundred years.

The entire proceedings had taken place in an atmosphere of cold efficiency.

Though the proceedings basically took all day, almost nothing happened.

The city legally had the right to start proceedings to take the child, but did not.

The written decision said that proceedings to remove the judge could have taken at least until the end of the year.

The proceedings take place in secret and the members are nominated by governments.

It costs a lot of money to go to court and the proceedings take a very long time.