The phrase "a number of days delayed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something has not occurred or been completed within the expected timeframe, indicating a delay.
Example: "The shipment was a number of days delayed due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "several days late" or "a few days postponed".
The number of days delayed showed a positive or right skewed distribution with median equalling 0 for the majority of measurements.
The total number of "days delayed" rose to 143,118, the figure for October 2013 was 123,852.
For the measles vaccination, it was 40%.The mean number of days delayed ranged from 15.4 (SD=4.3) for BCG to 38.9 (SD=3.4) for DPT3/Hepatitis B3/ OPV3.
The median and 95th percentile number of days delay between symptom onset and presentation to the PHC were 1.5 and 3 days, respectively.
Non-parametric Kruskal Wallis tests were used to test for differences in median number of days' delay between ethnic groupings, given the skewed nature of the data.
The total number of days delay per patient is shown in Figure 2, and the doses of capecitabine and gemcitabine delivered per cycle are shown in Figure 3. Using the formula: dose intensity = (cumulative dose received/duration of treatment)/ planned cumulative dose/planned duration of treatment), the achieved dose intensity for gemcitabine was 0.8, and for capecitabine was 0.76.
No data on the actual number of days' delay were available, and so true dose intensity cannot be calculated.
The pruritus experienced by the patients subjectively increased by a delay of a number of days following peak pollen concentration.
4 A second type, delayed CINV, occurs more than 24 hours after chemotherapy has ended and may continue for a number of days.
The general practitioner was then prompted to record whether this was a delayed prescription and, if so, the number of days to delay before picking up the drug.
Our data set is recent (2009 2013) and has measures for hospital delays, which distinguish between delayed patients and the number of days of delay, and between total delays and those due to social care.
