Sentence examples for modest delays from inspiring English sources

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.

However, experience with nonpandemic influenza indicates that oseltamivir must be given early during symptom development for it to have any substantial biological effect (30 ); modest delays may vitiate the treatment effectiveness (31 ).

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.

If, after even only a modest delay to gather up his courage, he informed his third choice hospital of his change of heart, students whom that hospital would have liked to hire may have already committed to other hospitals.

If Mrs. May, against the odds, does succeed in Parliament next week, then matters move relatively smoothly, with a modest delay to Brexit to allow for enacting legislation to put her plan in place.

Some disruption — such as a modest delay to protest a campus talk or a series of provocative queries during a discussion period — can be a powerful way to make a point.