The Chinese government has lagged about eight years behind the European Union in imposing new emissions standards.
Historically, the real estate market has lagged about a year behind the financial markets.
Their average score on the college admission test lags about 150 points behind the district average of 1130.
Because of other limitations, farming was also stunted in the New World, which lagged about five millenniums behind the Middle East.
Regionally, service ratings lag about a point behind those for food, and in Manhattan the difference is more than two points.
In polls leading up to the vote on Sunday before a national polling blackout, Renzi's yes campaign lagged about five points behind the no campaign, with about a quarter of Italian voters undecided on the referendum.
Over all, average prices lagged about 14percentt from the peak in the first quarter of 2008, but by far less, only 2percentt, when the hugely expensive condominiums at the Plaza and 15 Central Park West are excluded from the calculations.
Business investment in particular still lags about 1 percentage point behind the pre-crisis average when the size of the economy is taken into account, according to a report released today.
Still, the bus is such a fact of life in the Hamptons that Hamptonites swap Jitney stories at cocktail parties when the conversation lags: about catching it, about getting a good seat, about buying "value packs" of discounted tickets in the winter.
Business people apparently agree, as organic-clothing companies have been proliferating in recent years, said Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, an advocacy group based in Finland, Minn., noting, however, that the production and marketing of organic clothing has lagged about 10 years behind organic food.
