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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a year delay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a postponement or setback that lasts for one year.
Example: "The project faced a year delay due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "a one-year postponement" or "a twelve-month delay".
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Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is projected to cost $5.1 billion, or 17percentt more than budgeted, forcing a year delay and a cut in the number of planes produced, according to Pentagon documents.
One group of conservatives on Thursday pressed what they called a compromise: a one-year stopgap spending bill that would raise the debt ceiling for a year, delay all aspects of the health care law for a year, and give back some of the Pentagon cuts as a sweetener.
At the very least, it would further undermine the euro, whose value against the dollar has plunged 25percentt in a year; delay any possibility of Britain and Sweden joining the common currency; and turn Ms. Kjaersgaard into a sort of Nordic version of Austria's Jorg Haider, with an invigorated anti-European and anti-immigrant message.
Last August NSF revealed that the project was facing an $80 million budget overrun and more than a year delay, and in December 2015 it pulled the plug on the current contractor, NEON Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Boulder, Colorado, that was created expressly to build and operate NEON.
In 1973, tribal attorneys wrote to the BIA to demand the collection of royalties, and after a year delay, the BIA would only state that they were "looking into it".
Our data suggest that resistance in these damselflies is not only affected by the parasite population in the current year, but that there may be a year delay before parasite prevalence affects resistance levels.
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In 1988 writers walked out for nearly half a year, delaying the fall television season.
In addition, the city is planning to stretch out its capital plan by a year, delaying projects but saving money on debt service.
Congress passed a law in 1995 that required the embassy to be relocated to Jerusalem, but since then each president has signed a waiver twice a year delaying the move for another six months.
A two-and-a-half year delay between when a violation was committed and when it was reported.
Statistics show that those who have symptoms of depression experience an average of a 6-8 year delay in getting treatment after the onset of symptoms.
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