The phrase "avoidable delay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to refer to a delay that could have been prevented or avoided.
Example: "The project was significantly impacted by an avoidable delay in the delivery of materials."
Alternatives: "preventable delay" or "unnecessary delay".
After a long and avoidable delay, the N.B.A. finally opens its 2011-12 Sunday Sunday.
"Fiona Woolf caused unnecessary distress to victims of child abuse and caused a lengthy and avoidable delay to a very serious inquiry that urgently needs to get started.
He took his own life, leaving the manuscript forever unfinished, more evidence, it would seem, that no avoidable delay goes unpunished.
The drastic queue oscillations in large delay networks of PI, REM and DC-AQM decrease link utilization and introduce avoidable delay jitter.
"Fiona Woolf caused unnecessary distress to victims of child abuse and caused a lengthy and avoidable delay to a very serious inquiry that urgently needs to get started," he said.
He said: "Fiona Woolf misled the home secretary over her links with Leon Brittan, caused unnecessary distress to victims of child abuse and caused a lengthy and avoidable delay to a very serious inquiry that urgently needs to get started.
The percentage of patients with avoidable delays decreased from 24%to9%9%.
The Home Office must not allow vulnerable children to fall back into the hands of people smugglers because of avoidable delays".
The statutory sums are supposed to deter airlines from allowing avoidable delays; in fact they seem to be deterring them from paying out.
"We brook no impediment," he said, "and we will certainly suffer no avoidable delays".The president says he is simply reclaiming for poor blacks the land that was stolen from their ancestors.
Our findings uncover the true extent of inadequate care for people with incurable breast cancer – from feeling they're not taken seriously when they raise concerns, to facing avoidable delays to a diagnosis, or being told the news in A&E.
