In these writings can be read the record of a prolonged interior debate.

The move provoked a prolonged debate about the pricing of audits.

"Is this going to lead to more talking and prolonged debate?"

Members of both houses predicted prolonged debate on the issue.

The call makes a prolonged debate over the issue all but inevitable as legislators struggle to fashion a new state budget.

I spoke for forty minutes and carried the whole audience after a prolonged debate.

We call for a more prolonged public debate on this issue involving the local community hospitals and the public they serve.

But they acknowledge that those efforts, which would result in weakening state control, have been slowed by a prolonged internal debate.

A longtime supporter of overhauling the regulatory system, he played a central role in the prolonged debate.

After a prolonged public debate, it was agreed in 1987 to preserve the area as an open space for public use.