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Delay in sentence

761 examples of Delay in a sentence

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.
But if you want to reach the very top, you should delay gratification and, of course, become a politician.
And we replay that to the other hand with a time delay.
Either no time delay, in which case light would just tickle your palm, or with a time delay of two-tenths of three-tenths of a second.
So we've been trying in our lab now to develop drugs that will activate this FOXO cell using human cells now in order to try and come up with drugs that will delay aging and age-related diseases.
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.
What we do is prolong people's lives, and delay death, and redirect death, but we can't, strictly speaking, save lives on any sort of permanent basis.
It's as if there's a rain delay, every single time in many cases.
The message reads, [Arabic] "You can crush the flowers, but you can't delay spring."
And the reason for the delay and the boredom was that the House of Representatives were against the Senate.
I remember in Iraq, for example, that we went through a period of feeling that we should delay democracy.
Nelson is a member of the expert advisory group of the Medicines Patent Pool, and he told me not so long ago, "Ellen, we rely in Kenya and in many other countries on the Medicines Patent Pool to make sure that new medicines also become available to us, that new medicines, without delay, become available to us."
The rule is about a 10-year delay for a new product to go to market in developing countries, if at all.
The fear is that the longer we delay any solution, the more the world will look to the U.S. not as the bedrock of stability in the global economy, but as a place that can't resolve its own fights, and the longer we put that off, the more we make the world nervous, the higher interest rates are going to be, the quicker we're going to have to face a day of horrible calamity.
Those are all cases in which a lot of value is lost by delay and strikes.
Light increases levels of alertness and will delay sleep.
We repeated the experiment with the same two groups, this time adding a delay between the time we told subjects how we would use their data and the time we actually started answering the questions.
How long a delay do you think we had to add in order to nullify the inhibitory effect of knowing that faculty would see your answers?
And that basically, you can delay technology, but you can't kill it.
Leave them abandoned, and they risk exploitation and abuse, and leave them unskilled and uneducated, and delay by years the return to peace and prosperity in their countries.
Whale carcasses are also known to transport about 190,000 tons of carbon, which is the equivalent of that produced by 80,000 cars per year from the atmosphere to the deep oceans, and the deep oceans are what we call "carbon sinks," because they trap and hold excess carbon from the atmosphere, and therefore help to delay global warming.
You see, most cameras record images one row at a time, and so if an object moves during the recording of a single image, there's a slight time delay between each row, and this causes slight artifacts that get coded into each frame of a video.
So if you didn't correct for this delay, then anything that you perceived to be within 10 centimeters of you, by the time you perceived it, you would have bumped into it or just passed it.
So it would seem that all our various medical miracles can delay or prevent death but not reverse it.
When you want to delay urinating, you keep the sphincter closed.
Or just an airport security line delay.
But it took me by surprise to learn in an area of Ethiopia, parents delay picking the names for their new babies by a month or more.
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