31.   After weeks of bureaucratic delays and uncertainty, the Department of Employment finally gave Branco clearance to join fellow Brazilian Juninho at Middlesbrough.

32.   After years of research and development, though, the scientists and Kanis have run into a bureaucratic delay.

33.   Although everyone agrees Bangkok urgently needs a comprehensive mass transit system various schemes have been mired in political wrangling and bureaucratic delays.

34.   Akentyev also blamed the problem on bureaucratic delays.

35.   At the Kiev-Mlin elevator, tons of old wheat sit in a warehouse because of a bureaucratic delay.

36.   Bureaucratic delays and political infighting have held up approval for the deal since last autumn.

37.   But aid since has fallen off, mainly because of administrative incompetence and bureaucratic delays holding up tens of millions of dollars.

38.   But bureaucratic delays and a lack of Vietnamese personnel to handle U.S. requests hampered the effort, he said.

39.   But he said that bureaucratic delays and a lack of Vietnamese personnel to handle U.S. requests hampered the effort.

40.   But it has been dogged by bureaucratic delays and wrangling over Jewish membership of the seven-man executive board.