Sentence examples for modest delay from inspiring English sources

We got loaded onto a bus after a modest delay.

Allowing for a modest delay would remove the excuse that revealing results would risk giving away hedge funds' investment secrets.

Such small changes imply large effects, and if the beneficial effects on cognition observed in FINGER [Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability] will lead to even a modest delay in onset of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, it would have a huge effect on both individual and societal levels".

Even a modest delay in aging could increase average life expectancy by 2.2 years, compress the period of morbidity at the end of life, and save perhaps $7.1 trillion in health care costs over a period of 50 years, Olshansky and colleagues estimated in a 2013 paper in the journal Health Affairs.

As cancer is generally a disease of the elderly, only a modest delay in its onset is required to reduce its importance compared to other causes of mortality.

The oxt6 mutant also exhibited a modest delay in development under non-stress conditions in long day lengths, as reflected by the number of leaves within the rosette at the time of bolting.

Fully staffed, most of these airports are running with modest delays in good weather.

But the modest delays (perhaps too modest, in an age of instant checks!) and inconveniences they introduce might well make a difference to someone in a downward spiral, giving them a chance to seek help, think again, or reconsider gun ownership entirely.

The strike does not affect most service outside the city, including commuter rail lines, which experienced modest delays and an increase in riders.

It should be noted however that even modest delays in meal consumption with these agents can be associated with hypoglycemia.

In turn, publicity around targets may, inadvertently, increase anxiety experienced by patients and relatives by reinforcing the unjustified belief that even modest delays impact on survival.