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"having been delayed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something happened after a delay, for example: "The train, having been delayed, arrived to the station 15 minutes late."
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One of the Daves, an internet entrepreneur, has only just made it on time, having been delayed in Edinburgh by what he describes as a "sex injury".
The multimillion-pound contract was confirmed by David Cameron in February 2015, having been delayed until after the Scottish independence referendum.
In other such pieces, though, the wall gradually vanishes, and we feel a rush of understanding, the more dazzling for its having been delayed.
Specific details were hard to pin down because the manifesto itself was not available, having been "delayed in the Bank Holiday post".
The multimillion-pound contract was announced in February 2015, having been delayed until after the Scottish independence referendum, during which the future of shipbuilding on the Clyde was a key issue.
The book on which Jon Amiel concentrates is "The Origin of Species," which was published in 1859, having been delayed for many years, and the task of his film is to register the cautionary tremors that preceded the quake.
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Proceedings have been delayed.
Andrews, meanwhile, had been delayed.
(Those plans have been delayed).
Every movie has been delayed.
Completion of the factory has been delayed.
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