1.   If the dispute drags on, conditions in the city could deteriorate.

2.   However, there is an increased tendency for disputes to drag on over weeks and months.

3.   As the dispute drags on, bitterness on all sides grows.

4.   But contract disputes should not drag six weeks into the season.

5.   But as the labor dispute dragged into January, Katash left to return to the Maccabi team in Israel.

6.   But they said on Monday afternoon that they had no plans to negotiate with the union workers, a signal that the dispute could drag on.

7.   But there was a risk, she said, that the dispute could drag through the city bureaucracy and then the courts for years.

8.   If the dispute drags on, however, Gatti said shippers would find alternatives.

9.   Patent disputes can indeed drag on for years.