"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 • ...
(2) mean, say, reflect, suggest
Kolokacji: 4
(3) block, prevent, stem
Kolokacji: 3
1. delay occurs = opóźnienie występuje delay occurs
2. delay comes = opóźnienie przychodzi delay comes
3. delay follows = opóźnienie następuje delay follows
4. delay arises = opóźnienie wynika delay arises
5. delay grows = opóźnienie rośnie delay grows
  • Since the NorthPoint failure, many small businesses in the city say that those delays have grown to three to five months.
  • The delays have been growing rapidly since 1988, when tough new drug laws provoked the transfer of judges from civil courts to the criminal bench.
  • If the receiver moves to the side of the baseline, the delay from both stations will grow.
  • The delay on stock prices, normally 15 to 20 minutes, grew longer, of course, when volume was running at 600 million shares a day.
  • As the delay grew longer, the sense of unreality heightened.
  • And as any metropolitan air traveler can tell you, delays there have grown.
  • The delay grew noticeable before he finally looked up, squarely meeting her eyes.
  • But the continuing delay grows more deplorable as time passes.
  • In any event, delays in payment are not growing across the board.
  • Since each of these standards defined a minimum period of time to "try" for a link, the delay grew over 10 seconds.
(8) put, postpone, stall
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + delay
Kolokacji: 37
cause delays • avoid delays • reduce delays • experience delays • lead to delays • face delays • launch Africa delay • ...
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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