Delay in example sentence

And then they stood at two hilltops, two miles distant, and they did the same thing, on the assumption from Galileo that if light had a discernible speed, he'd notice a delay in the light coming back from his assistant's lamp.

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This was a long delay.

When you're three, you better be able to write your name legibly, or else we'll consider it a developmental delay.

And Applied Minds gets a lot of calls from people who want help with their problems, and I didn't think this was a very likely one to call back, so I kept on giving him to the delay list.

You can't delay that much.

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