Sentence:  There followed a <WSD>long</WSD> and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957 , in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified