"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
(13) frequent, average, usual
Kolokacji: 3
(14) constant, continual
Kolokacji: 2
1. constant delay = stałe opóźnienie constant delay
2. continual delay = ciągłe opóźnienie continual delay
  • But, even with so much to do, the continual delays in convening the CIS hearing were irritating and nerve-racking.
  • Widely criticized for its overcapacity, the plant suffered continual delays due to insufficient ore inputs and lack of investment.
  • But the continual delays have cast a cloud over the project.
  • Union representatives Catherine Campell and Louis Carlet were frustrated at the continual delays.
  • "What is causing these continual delays?"
  • We cannot afford to have these constant, continual delays.
  • The stations have been collaborating on a combiner at the Empire State Building, but it has been the subject of continual delays.
  • However, these plans have been subject to continual delay.
  • Foreigners complain about the continual delays in football and baseball games, but American couch potatoes savor the suspense as well as the chance to see instant replays and debate the next move.
  • Her suicide note makes it clear that she could not live with the shame implied by the continual delays in the trial of her rapist.
(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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