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The phrase "a weeks delay" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a week's delay" to indicate possession, meaning the delay of one week.
Example: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are experiencing a week's delay in the project timeline."
Alternatives: "a one-week delay" or "a delay of one week."
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For all of them it meant a week delay after the habituation experiment of gaze following into distant space (experiment 2b).
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A few weeks' delay didn't stop Jon Stewart from devoting nearly all of Tuesday's episode of "The Daily Show" to the issue of gun control.
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TB cultures have an 8 weeks delay and false negative results are frequent when the samples are so reduced as those from intraocular fluids [1].
Thus a few days or weeks delay is unlikely to make any significant difference in long term outcome.
After a 1-week delay, a substantial number of children who were exposed to the clues misremembered their inferences as actual experiences.
"I hope that we will not have a coup .In any event, the army's call for a six-week delay seems a thin excuse.
The waiting list was long enough that it resulted in a 7-week delay for a recent request by the ATF last summer, according to the CNET report.
"At the end of the day we are talking about a six week delay on an issue of enormous consequence.
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