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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'we have delayed' is correct and used widely in written English.
You can use it when you need to express a situation or action in which something has been postponed to a later time. For example: "We have delayed the shipment of the product until all the payment has been received."
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"We have delayed action," he said.
We have delayed or canceled about $1.3 billion in projects.
"We have delayed a floor vote until September.
But now that we have delayed, it's too late to have this argument.
"We have delayed two other vaccine programmes to do this work," he said.
"In particular, we have delayed the curbing of greenhouse gas emissions for far too long.
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We've delayed raises, we're cutting back on travel and entertainment, cutting back on consulting.
Note: we've delayed publishing this scene, which is from about two hours ago.
So we make no apologies for accelerating the programme – if we had delayed, thousands of children would have continued getting a second-rate education.
"We had delayed this report, trying to find a time when it was more calm," said Rae D. Rosen, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve.
"We're going to be successful, and then we've delayed for two years and we haven't begun to solve the problem".
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