Sentence examples for delay behind from inspiring English sources

The phrase "delay behind" is not grammatically correct and should not be used in written English.
"Delay" and "behind" are both prepositions and should not be used together in this way. A possible alternative could be "delayed behind," where "delayed" is used as an adjective to describe something that has been delayed. For example: - "The train was delayed behind schedule due to a mechanical issue." - "Her flight was delayed behind other departing flights at the busy airport."

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The delay behind Alonso meant Raikkonen was 15 seconds adrift of Hamilton at that stage, rather than the 12 he would have been had he stayed ahead of the Ferrari at the start.

Was the delay behind its release intentional, or was it a matter of getting the music right?

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What was surprising was a staple of their game plan: BenJarvus Green-Ellis's off-tackle runs and inside runs on delays behind the exquisite pull-blocks of Logan Mankins.

The train expected at Platform 4 is no longer just delayed, behind schedule or late.

Hamilton also implicitly called for Felipe Massa to be penalised after he felt he was delayed behind the Ferrari driver on his sole flying lap, but stewards ignored his pleas.

After being delayed behind Williams's Valtteri Bottas at the first corner of what would have been his first flying lap, Rosberg backed off and in doing so it appeared as if he might have delayed Hamilton after the Englishman had just set what was his fastest first sector time to that point.

Interestingly, in colloquial Arabic there exists a derived term mizra:qan, used to indicate a camel delayed behind the rest of the caravan because it moves slowly (Allam 2000), which may be in relation with the tendency of some piebald camels to stray away.

While the two Ferraris were delayed behind Hamilton, Alonso was pulling away at the front, setting fastest laps on laps seven and fifteen.

Jered Gruber, writing for Velo Nation, argued that Contador was right to attack, defending him on the basis that Schleck did not wait for Contador when he was delayed behind a crash on the cobblestones in stage 3 and lost 13 13" to Schleck, a crash that cost Schleck the aid of his best ally in the tour, his brother Fränk Schleck.

The phase signal of the trap state photoinduced absorbance exhibits a clear trend: with increasing wavelength, the corresponding phase is increasingly delayed behind the excitation pulse.

Evidence of speciation will be demonstrated ifthe central tendency of age at first reproduction in any set of 10 experimental pairs is significantly delayed behind the slower of its two sets of 10 corresponding control pairs.

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