"prone to delay" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used when you are referring to someone or something that is likely to be late or have delays. For example, "John is notoriously prone to delay and almost always arrives late."
Logan is the 17th busiest airport in the United States, and the sixth most prone to delay.
The railroads being new and prone to delay, Brown arrived, having travelled sometimes upside down on his head, 36 hours later, barely alive.
While the strained program still makes more than 80percentt of initial payments within three weeks — slightly below the standard set under federal law — cases that require individual review are especially prone to delay.
Shiftable loads can be scheduled and are prone to delay, such as washing machines and EVs.
Moreover, those at a higher elevation were also prone to delay their evacuation (r = 0.27) and shelter in place (r = 0.18).
Diagnostic methods of TB, nowadays, are prone to delay in diagnosis, increased false negative results and are not sensitive to many forms of paucibacillary disease.
Nevertheless, members of the panel, particularly those involved in using the devices, said the "signals" that drug-coated stents were more prone to delayed clotting pointed to a clear enough trend to warrant a warning about the developing data.
[10] suggested that TO should be identified as a different form of CT which is prone to delayed recovery of patients managed conservatively and surgically.
Conversely, ignoring the fibula fracture allows the option of tibial shortening to improve fracture contact at the metaphysis, especially in the type C3 fracture where the metaphysis is comminuted and prone to delayed healing.
In particular, two structural components with the same Fire Resistance rating (R) under standardized fire may exhibit very distinct behavior under natural fire, one of them being more prone to delayed failure than the other.
Hip fractures have high rates of morbidity and mortality [ 1- 3], and are prone to delayed and nonunions [ 4].
