You could say that we have postponed a decision on these important matters, by several years.

But then they were told last week to postpone the appearance by two days.

The action led him to postpone his appearance before the council by one week.

Therefore, it is only a question of postponing the vote by two weeks.

Although there were no casualties, this postponed the start of the game by an hour.

"I postponed the war by a year or two, maybe three," she said.

She assured herself that it would postpone her report to the police by only a few minutes.

Instead, he would postpone by at least six months a list of gigantic public works projects.

It does not seem, in general, valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost.

The board also postponed the increase by a week, to Nov. 12.