1.   Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort.

2.   It will be delayed for at least three weeks to give time for the sites to be advertised in local newspapers.

3.   Our meeting was delayed for ten minutes.

4.   Play was delayed for two hours by a power outage.

5.   The cleanup effort was delayed for a few days by some technical snags and equipment problems.

6.   The Colchester players left the field while police and club stewards restored order, with play being delayed for about five minutes.

7.   The net result is that the lack of that information results in the application being delayed for many months.

8.   The plane was delayed for several hours by bad weather.