The phrase "a two weeks delay" is not correct in standard written English.
It should be "a two-week delay" to indicate a delay lasting two weeks.
Example: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are experiencing a two-week delay in the project timeline."
Alternatives: "a two-week postponement" or "a delay of two weeks."
"When history is written, the story will be how we welcomed 25,000 refugees in a short period of time and not the fact that there was a two week delay in meeting the intermediary target," said McCallum.
This delay might be too astringent: in most papers, a two week delay between vaccination and symptom onset is used [7], [23], [24], [26], as data on seasonal influenza showed that protective antibodies were present in over 90% of persons fourteen days after vaccination [13].
A prospective study conducted in a single centre (RBWH) showed a complication rate of 38% with immediate use and 2.56% with a two week delay period [ 9].
Furthermore, we believe a two week delay is unlikely to be a significant source of recall bias and, in any event, would reasonably be expected to affect all doctors equally in this study.
International guidelines (European Dialysis and Transplant Association-European Renal Association and International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 1998 [ 14]) also suggest a two week delay and state that there is insufficient evidence to formulate a "guideline".
We used a three weeks delay between vaccination and consultation to differentiate vaccinated influenza cases fully immunized from those that were still unprotected.
A six week delay was announced this weekend, after police and army chiefs said they would not secure the poll in the north-east, where Boko Haram is waging a jihadi insurgency.
But they found that every extra year at work was associated with a six week delay in Alzheimer's.
"At the end of the day we are talking about a six week delay on an issue of enormous consequence.
Information on dates of deaths and emigrations were obtained from the Total Population Registry, a complete and updated registry, which has a maximum two weeks' delay in reporting.
Before implementation of the SMS system, there had been a minimum two weeks delay between case presentation and case reporting to the city health office.
