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Free sign upThe phrase "any sort of delay" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing potential delays in a process, event, or timeline.
Example: "We cannot afford any sort of delay in the project timeline if we want to meet our deadline."
Alternatives: "any kind of delay" or "any type of delay".
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Pesky, messy birds are protected by law once they are nesting, but if you get the nets up and stop them doing so, then you are acting legally while avoiding any sort of delay or future concession to nature.
However, unlike many other areas of life, any sort of delay is almost as harmful as active worsening, with the world's climate swiftly heating up to an unbearable point for many Americans, who already face increasingly punishing hurricanes, rising seas and apocalyptic wildfires.
There wasn't any sort of delay, September was the target all along.
"Most times you can, but if there is any sort of delay it can knock down your itinerary like a set of dominoes". Welcome to the complex and confusing world of minimum connecting times, or MCT, which are established largely by the airlines.
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The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about.
It is a depressing account of gridlock in Washington, of efforts by conservative lobbyists to deny the phenomenon altogether (and when that hasn't worked, to delay any sort of action), and of infighting within the environmental left over whether to compromise and try to get the support of centrists and corporate interests, or whether to take a hard-line, ideological stand.
The Chamber wants to delay any sort of rulemaking, arguing that this massive, painstakingly-researched empirical study wasn't comprehensive enough.
This sort of delay now seems normal in mental health services.
"If there's going to be that sort of delay, you need to have a better reason".
"I think what we are experiencing is some sort of delay in the usual rush for rentals," he said.
"They can flourish and come out of this, or they might always have some sort of delay, at best," Ms. Carmona said.
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