Your staff have to comply or risk costly fines and lengthy legal battles.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A woman devotes herself to freeing her wrongfully convicted mother from a brutal prison, facing a lengthybattle with bureaucracy and a foreign legal system.
The Sun (2016)
The show starred feuding relatives and featured a lengthy court battle and a disappearing fortune.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Seechart battle
Definition of 'lengthy'
lengthy
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adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You use lengthy to describe an event or process which lasts for a long time.