lengthy investigation

collocation in English

meaningsoflengthyandinvestigation

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lengthy
adjective
uk
/ˈleŋ.θi/us
/ˈleŋ.θi/
continuing for a ...
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investigation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˌves.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪnˌves.təˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of examining a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover ...
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(Definition oflengthyandinvestigationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This would involve a separate andlengthyinvestigation, which must be considered and undertaken by a person or persons specially chosen for the purpose.
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I can report that the reviewing committee ordered alengthyinvestigationinto the provenance and legal status of the ring.
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Thatlengthyinvestigation, which ran to 20,000 pages of evidence, concluded in 1994 that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate any investigation.
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Surely, however, this should be done with caution, followinglengthyinvestigationof any potential negative, rather than positive, results?
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To establish the truth sometimes requires a thorough and perhapslengthyinvestigation.
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This involveslengthyinvestigation, at the conclusion of which it would he too late as the productions would be over and the casts dispersed.
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Meeting all these requirements may involve the authority in alengthyinvestigation, especially where the authorised person provides a wide range of financial services.
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There was a full andlengthyinvestigationby the parliamentary ombudsman, who could not find the case proven for maladministration.
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This would involve a separate andlengthyinvestigation, which must, we consider, be undertaken by a person or persons specially chosen for the purpose.
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More cases that reach the independent case examiner are resolved by an early resolution procedure that prevents the need for a full-blown andlengthyinvestigation.
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After alengthyinvestigation, police were given a description of the man who purchased the hammer from a local shopkeeper.
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As a result of alengthyinvestigation, the agency believes that the applications for the certificates contained fallacious information and must be voided.
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She was carrying the dossier of herlengthyinvestigationwhen the plane crashed.
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She achieved all information regarding the contaminated water from herlengthyinvestigation.
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This prompted alengthyinvestigation, but definitive proof was never forthcoming from that investigation.
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After alengthyinvestigationhe was court martialed, found guilty, and sentenced to death by hanging.
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Alengthyinvestigationdiscovered that the arson was the result of a personal grudge against the ship's owners, and was not an act of war.
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Often they are granted to individuals only after alengthyinvestigationand only after their need to have access to protected information has been adequately justified to the issuing authority.
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