Its implementation has already been greatly delayed in any case.
There is nothing that can prevent, or even greatly delay it now.
However, it was a year before the funds were made available, greatly delaying development.
Although greatly delayed, the resulting systems operated for about 20 years, into the 1980s.
Reconstruction was greatly delayed by economic sanctions and lack of international aid.
The cure for poliomyelitis will be greatly delayed, perhaps by years.
But though every step was familiar, increasing darkness and the heavy mist greatly delayed him.
"If we were not too greatly delayed by the trucks, we could make it in two days," he decided finally.
Sparing use of the precious drugs would have greatly delayed resistance.
Its construction, commenced in 1642, was greatly delayed by the events of the Deluge.