1.   An Energy Department spokeswoman was unable to explain the delay.

2.   Beverly found Bobby and explained the delay.

3.   But a few days ago Speaker Newt Gingrich explained the delay in purely tactical terms.

4.   But that concern does not explain delays in spending money on health insurance for children.

5.   Going from car to car in search of a conductor to explain the delay, Dante comes upon an older woman smoking a cigarette in the dark.

6.   In a potential blow to the prosecution, Ito also refused to consider further information offered by the prosecution to explain delays in DNA testing.

7.   Ito responded that those reasons would explain a delay of weeks, not months.

8.   Nordmann, who has locked his store door and papered its windows with vitamin advertisements, has not publicly explained his delay in notifying officials.

9.   Once more he explained a delay to her and once more told her she would have to cancel her flight reservation to El Salvador, her home country.

10.   Postal officials cannot explain the delay.