The phrase "delayed several hours" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase describes when something was held back or pushed back for a period of time. It is commonly used when talking about transportation, such as a flight or a train, being delayed. Example: Our flight was delayed several hours due to mechanical issues, causing us to miss our connecting flight.
The opening ceremony was delayed several hours.
The report's release was delayed several hours, and Mr. Blair managed to get changes made to the final version.
The Mets' charter from Philadelphia was delayed several hours Thursday night, and the team did not arrive at its hotel here until 5 30 this morning.
Earlier, Volusia County election results were delayed several hours by a computer disk error that subtracted 16,000 votes from Mr. Gore and added hundreds to Mr. Bush in one precinct in Deland.
At higher parasitemia levels, schizont rupture is often delayed several hours.
The activity peak is broader in shits1 expressing flies and the activity reduction is delayed several hours consistent with the observed behavioral period change.
We found that the LVring-case impedance vector also had the best correlation with LAP over short-term durations when abrupt changes in pacing were being performed, but unlike the natriuretic peptides, there was a delay (several hours to 1 day) in the response resulting in a hysteresis-type pattern on the correlation plots, as well as a blunting of the response relative to ANP and BNP.
Moving to Rome caused problems for the production team: the equipment truck was delayed for several hours at the Swiss border; the special effects team were delayed for twenty-four hours at Customs in Calais.
There have been reports for several weeks about the delays, with passengers arriving at Stansted on Friday saying they were delayed by several hours.
The counting was delayed for several hours.
But his departure from Canberra was delayed for several hours and a replacement jet had to be brought in.
