The phrase "a sort of delay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is an indefinite or vague delay in a process or event.
Example: "There was a sort of delay in the project timeline due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "a kind of delay" or "a type of delay".
"Most times you can, but if there is any sort of delay it can knock down your itinerary like a set of dominoes". Welcome to the complex and confusing world of minimum connecting times, or MCT, which are established largely by the airlines.
Pesky, messy birds are protected by law once they are nesting, but if you get the nets up and stop them doing so, then you are acting legally while avoiding any sort of delay or future concession to nature.
However, unlike many other areas of life, any sort of delay is almost as harmful as active worsening, with the world's climate swiftly heating up to an unbearable point for many Americans, who already face increasingly punishing hurricanes, rising seas and apocalyptic wildfires.
There wasn't any sort of delay, September was the target all along.
This makes for good working conditions, and we write this as a sort of small, delayed tribute to our house.
Popova : If I may slightly counter that, I would argue that there's actually an enormous surge in interest in a sort of time-shifted reading — delayed and immersive reading that leaves room for deeper processing.
But Ellis cautions that researchers "have to be a little bit careful" because the time spread of deposits could have been caused by some sort of delay as a supernova's dust grains crossed interstellar space.
That decision did not come for two more years, the sort of delay that is fueling a renewed sexual abuse scandal in the church that has focused on whether the future pope moved quickly enough to remove known pedophiles from the priesthood, despite pleas from American bishops.
"If there's going to be that sort of delay, you need to have a better reason".
While that sort of delay might seem archaic in a world of global smartphone releases and a rush to find grey imports on Day Zero, the eBook reader is a far more 'impulsive' purchase for a more mainstream audience.
