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The phrase "additional time was needed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that more time is required to complete a task or project.
Example: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, additional time was needed to finalize the report."
Alternatives: "more time was required" or "extra time was necessary."
Idiom
For the time being.
For the time being indicates that an action or state will continue into the future, but is temporary.
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Kevin Doyle, head of the Capital Defenders Office, which is representing Mr. Harris, said the additional time was needed to deal with the case's "legal complexity".
"Given the historic nature of this joint rule between EPA and DOT, as well as the necessary coordination with California, it was recently determined that additional time was needed and we expect to issue a proposal for MY 2017-2025 vehicles by mid-November," said a statement issued by the E.P.A. on Tuesday evening.
If additional time was needed to complete the tagging process, animals were physically restrained by hand for a maximum of 30 minutes.
A score of zero would indicate that no additional time was needed to make a handedness judgment when an imagined change in perspective was required.
After termination of plasmapheresis, an additional time was needed for restoration of platelets and normal erythrocytes to optimal levels because of their biological cell cycle.
Concurrent research studies in two centres interfered with the plan to recruit consecutive attendees and additional time was needed to accrue the study sample in three centres.
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"The agreement also indicates that the group is cooperating with an ongoing US sanctions-related investigation but that additional time is needed to complete the investigation and determine whether any violations have occurred," the bank said.
While President Clinton has set a deadline of this summer to decide whether to deploy an anti-missile system, administration officials have said that the deadline could slip into the fall if additional time is needed to analyze information from a final test of the system in late June.
We're hearing talk that the "Big Deal" is being revived, but the bigger the deal, the tougher it is to pass quickly.There appears to be some movement toward a strategy in which the grand bargain is the main target (the better to avoid a ratings downgrade) with a short-term increase in the limit a possibility if additional time is needed to secure a big deal.
This is because additional time is needed for communicating with the new nodes.
Additional time is needed to access all groups of citizens, especially the teenagers and the youth.
More suggestions(17)
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additional time was given
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additional cleanup was needed
additional depressurization was needed
additional day was needed
additional dilution was needed
additional analysis was needed
additional tinkering was needed
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