"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 • ...
adjetivo + delay
Kolokacji: 105
long delay • far delay • significant delay • developmental delay • short delay • lengthy delay • slight delay • considerable delay • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 23
(9) major, procedural, legal
Kolokacji: 3
(10) unforeseen, unexpected
Kolokacji: 2
1. unforeseen delay = nieprzewidziane opóźnienie unforeseen delay
  • All these created unforeseen delays in the final plan preparation
  • Those are much further advanced, despite the usual unforeseen delays.
  • "My guest has been detained for the moment, but we've all become accustomed to unforeseen delays by now."
  • Frustrated by the unforeseen delay, they considered returning to Australia.
  • Actually it could probably be done in three, but Scott preferred to make conservative estimates to allow for unforeseen delays.
  • Despite, the reduced traffic volume, they had encountered numerous unforeseen delays.
  • Her hope is to have the pool ready for next summer, but unforeseen delays could push the opening back to 2008.
  • "But you can't be sure there won't be unforeseen delays."
  • If an unforeseen delay had not occurred in the passage, he would have been on the Austrian rear.
  • Originally planned for the spring of 1998, unforeseen delays stalled the project until early 2001.
2. unexpected delay = niespodziewane opóźnienie unexpected delay
(13) frequent, average, usual
Kolokacji: 3
(14) constant, continual
Kolokacji: 2
(17) minimal, minimum
Kolokacji: 2
(18) inevitable, unavoidable, fatal
Kolokacji: 3
(19) unexplained, inexplicable
Kolokacji: 2
(21) similar, variable
Kolokacji: 2
(22) widespread, total
Kolokacji: 2
(23) annoying, irritating
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + delay
Kolokacji: 21
without delay • of delays • with delays • to delays • in delays • ...

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