"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. serious delay = poważne opóźnienie serious delay
2. severe delay = poważne opóźnienie severe delay
3. dangerous delay = niebezpieczne opóźnienie dangerous delay
  • The judge ruled that such cutbacks would create dangerous delays in medical treatment and contribute to the spread of communicable diseases.
  • "Instead, the White House played politics and forced an unnecessary and dangerous delay."
  • It's more PR and a dangerous delay in acting decisively.
  • "My patients will either have dangerous delays before surgery or will have to go elsewhere."
  • There was nothing within worth this dangerous delay.
  • A lawsuit filed after the crash accused the railroad of dangerous delays in installing the braking systems.
  • "We all bear responsibility for this dangerous delay that cost lives in East Africa and need to learn the lessons of the late response," she said.
  • Analysts, however, said her plans to focus her advertising efforts on the end of the campaign would be a dangerous delay.
  • The medical profession sometimes contributes to a dangerous delay in treating infections that can lead to sepsis.
  • Three months was already a dangerous delay.
4. mild delay = łagodne opóźnienie mild 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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