The phrase "affect the start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or changes the beginning of an event, process, or situation.
Example: "The weather conditions can significantly affect the start of the race, causing delays or changes in the schedule."
Alternatives: "influence the beginning" or "impact the onset".
A long delay in completing a deal could affect the start of the preseason.
Jan Eliasson, his envoy for Darfur, told reporters in Khartoum that renewed violence in Darfur would not affect the start of peace talks on Oct. 27 in Libya.
Clare, who is now a champion for the British Association of Adoption and Fostering, and Steve are well aware that adoption doesn't just affect the start of a child's life.
Even if he delays the start by an amount equal to (or less than) the free slack, the delay will not affect the start times or slack of succeeding jobs (which is not true of jobs that have no free slack).
It then iterates along the DFG structure to determine a total execution ordering and to affect the start time.
That injury is also set to keep him out of the decider, though he hopes it will not affect the start of his season with Glamorgan.
The results indicated both the cooling air velocities and operating orientation significantly affect the start-up, oscillation and dry-out of the 3D-OHP.
The results show that changes in recruitment strategies represent an important channel through which changes in the economic environment affect the starting wages and vacancy duration for new hires.
Neurophysiological data from [15] likewise supports the view that reward cues affect the starting point of an information accumulation process in a paradigm somewhat similar to ours, albeit one with a fixed stimulus duration.
In C al. moloch, these mutations affect the starting codon (ATG- TTG), alter the activation site (I25T), and produce a premature stop codon (C184fsX189).
We assume that the date of early frost events in fall/winter seasons is one of many factors that affect the starting date of wild bird migration from north to south.
