"delay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

delay verbo

delay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 81
delay action • delay one's departure • delay construction • delay one's plans • delay the release • delay the start • delay a decision • ...
verbo + delay
Kolokacji: 15
want to delay • try to delay • decide to delay • keep delaying • consider delaying • ...
delay + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
delayed until • delay by • delayed for • delayed after • delayed in • ...
delay + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 38
further delay • delay no longer • delayed indefinitely • repeatedly delayed • significantly delayed • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(2) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
(4) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
1. slightly delayed = nieznacznie opóźnić slightly delayed
2. somewhat delayed = nieco opóźnić somewhat delayed
  • Acquisition of the land was delayed somewhat by a controversy over valuation.
  • Is somewhat delayed as it has to stop to participate in search for somebody missing from another ship.
  • A message, somewhat delayed, was just coming in from Timber.
  • At 5, Jack is somewhat delayed developmentally, still living wholly in the unity he feels with his mother.
  • During the first stage, early mental and motor skill development may be somewhat delayed.
  • Most commuters who tried arrived at their jobs, despite being delayed somewhat.
  • Do you mind if our lunch at the Lodge is somewhat delayed?
  • Their trip through the streets was somewhat delayed by these precautions, but otherwise uneventful.
  • I do not intend to prolong the debate because you have a lot of reports to examine and your House has been delayed somewhat.
  • The project was somewhat delayed, although the company's continuing work on the Jetliner caused some controversy.
(5) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(6) due, unduly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(9) effectively, potentially
Kolokacji: 2
(10) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2

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