It had been hoped that this section would open in May but a particularly wet winter severely delayed construction work.

The project is now severely delayed as a result of the financial crash in Dubai.

Vocabulary acquisition is often severely delayed for preschool age children.

The space craft was completed in 1997, but the development of the penetrators were severely delayed.

The construction was severely delayed due to shortage of funds.

The big networks use airline computer systems to find out if the flights they are meeting will be severely delayed.

This decision meant that Netscape's next major version was severely delayed.

Initially, completion of the new tower was expected in August 2008, but construction works were severely delayed.

However this extension was severely delayed and didn't open until 31 August 2011.

Completion of all five and in particular the last three, severely delayed by shipyard financial problems.