1.(Foreigners could not operate the latter. ) Google then began a year-and-a-half-long negotiation to restore the license.
（外国人不得染指后者），Google开始了长达一年半的漫长协商，来重新获得经营许可。
2.It has been a very long negotiation, but we reached an agreement in the end.
谈判是漫长的，但是我们最终还是达成了一致。
3.At the end of 2003, after what amounted to a months-long negotiation, I gave in with a grad student at Princeton.
2003年的年底，经过一个多月的纠缠，我终于又和一个普林斯顿的研究生发生了关系。
4.eg. It's a long negotiation. We don't agree on every point.
那是一个漫长的谈判。我们并不在每一点上都达成一致