"delay in completion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to a period of time that is taking longer than planned. For example: "The delay in completion of this project has caused us to miss important deadlines."
The money will pay not only for the purchase of the building, but also for renovations and upgrades, an operating reserve and an undisclosed amount to settle the dispute with the owners over a delay in completion of the sale.
A spokesman for the agency said: "The delay in completion is due to a combination of having an overly optimistic timeframe at the beginning of the programme, necessary changes to the scope of the programme during its lifetime and delays in developing and releasing some of the ICT upgrades".
The lengthy delay in completion was due to frequent changes in design details, and experiments with her armament and with her sailing rig.
Apart from that $8.5 billion increase, the new plan has just $4.6 billion of other increases that would apply to the rest of the route, even though the four-year delay in completion will add inflationary costs.
Yeah, the top-downers "jointing this effort" thought they would be done six months before they actually were -- and even with the delay in completion until June 2010, this CCSS product has "rush job" stamped all over it.
Disruption of the late efficient replication would lead to a delay in completion of duplication or S-phase.
Children's classrooms are uprooted, teachers compete with jackhammers and delays in completion are almost de rigueur.
Delays in completion have caused the project to lose major tenants.
Many other changes were made to Dunderberg while she was under construction and significantly contributed to her delays in completion.
They were also obsolescent before completion due to rapid technological change most significantly the rise of the superdreadnought battleships and lengthy delays in completion of the later units of the class.
Delays in completion of the yeast cell cycle [12] and the accumulation of large, abnormally budding cells [13] both have been linked to an increase in chromosome content or aneuploidy.
