"delay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

delay sustantivo

sustantivo + delay
Kolokacji: 36
Tom Delay • rain delay • time delay • Mr. Delay • Welfare reform bill delay • Representative Delay of Texas • flight delay • ...
delay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 4
delay time • delay line • delay tactic • delay period
delay + verbo
Kolokacji: 53
delay causes • delay means • Welfare delay blocks • delay gives • delay makes • delay results • delay occurs • ...
verbo + delay
Kolokacji: 37
cause delays • avoid delays • reduce delays • experience delays • lead to delays • face delays • launch Africa delay • ...
(5) launch, occasion, introduce
Kolokacji: 3
1. launch Africa delay = wystrzelenie Afryka opóźnienie launch Africa delay
2. delay occasioned = opóźnienie spowodowało delay occasioned
  • Impatient at the delay occasioned by this running about, Bonaparte, without saying anything to me, ordered the bell to be altered so that it should ring within the cabinet; and exactly above my table.
  • However, owing to a delay occasioned by the difficulty in selecting a neutral third commissioner, Clifford never assumed his duties.
  • Hood sailed on to Basseterre but the delay occasioned in capturing Espion gave de Grasse time to get out to sea.
  • The case eventually came to trial in September 1979, following months of delay occasioned by a fierce rear-guard action by the Church of Scientology's lawyers.
  • It was within his means to kick or blast the lock, but either way meant noise, and the delay occasioned by a hidden chain or dead bolt could be fatal.
  • However the project was completed 2 weeks ahead of a revised schedule in 1975, despite delays occasioned by a nation steel shortage.
  • I'm sorry; we had a last-minute delay occasioned by another issue, not this one.
  • After a 35-minute delay occasioned by the misplacing of some of the orchestral parts, the work's 15-minute Prologue was performed, followed by another 20-minute wait, during which the music was found.
  • This condition was met swiftly, and following a delay occasioned by World War I, the Legislature in 1919 appropriated $200,000 for buildings and equipment.
  • Measurement of the impact takes advantage of the delay occasioned by the reality that there are insufficient resources to implement everywhere at the same time.
3. introduce a delay = przedstaw opóźnienie introduce a delay
(8) report, impose
Kolokacji: 2
(9) associate, mean
Kolokacji: 2
adjetivo + delay
Kolokacji: 105
long delay • far delay • significant delay • developmental delay • short delay • lengthy delay • slight delay • considerable delay • ...
preposición + delay
Kolokacji: 21
without delay • of delays • with delays • to delays • in delays • ...

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