lose time vs prolong

lose time

verb
  • to fall behind schedule. 

  • to go slow and not keep accurate time. 

prolong

verb
  • To put off to a distant time; to postpone. 

  • To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of 

  • To become longer; lengthen. 

  • To extend in space or length. 

How often have the words lose time and prolong occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )