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词汇 example_english_two-year-delay
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two-year delay

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meanings of delay


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delay
noun[C or U]
uk /dɪˈleɪ/ us /dɪˈleɪ/
the situation in which you have to wait longer than expected for something to happen, or the time that you have ...
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Examples of two-year delay


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There is frequently a reluctance on his part to require completion, even after the two-yeardelay has expired.
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It is obvious that this would mean, let us say, a two-yeardelay or moratorium on all these plans.
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There has been a further two-yeardelay in allowing trustee savings banks to make loans to their depositors.
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I want to ensure that we use profitably and productively the two-yeardelay which he so generously offered us.
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We decided on the two-yeardelay because we feel that it allows the ports substantial period during which to see the benefits of privatisation.
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A two-yeardelay in implementing community care looks extremely optimistic.
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With regard to research in beef and sheep, there was to be a two-yeardelay.
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We hear that there is to be a two-yeardelay.
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I am not persuaded by the merits of an 18-month delay or the original two-yeardelay.
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Can we sit back without criticising a two-yeardelay in making a comparatively minor alteration in the law?
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The result is a two-yeardelay while the steel is obtained and before it is delivered.
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In some instances an applicaton may be deemed to be bogus after a two-yeardelay.
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There might be a two-yeardelay for the revaluation rather than a three—year delay.
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I am happy to look at the two-yeardelay.
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I suspect that no one who has been present throughout the debate would wish for a two-yeardelay, or whatever.
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The two-yeardelay also results in cases being settled out of court.
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That is the reason, and the only reason, for the two-yeardelay.
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If there is a two-yeardelay, at least another 2 million properties will be sold without any energy efficiency information being available.
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The problem has been exacerbated by the two-yeardelay in the control of volatile organic compound emissions.
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The two-yeardelay in implementation proposed by this amendment will be in the national interest.
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