With a serpentine line, a long delay at one register won't unfairly punish the people who lined up behind it.

有了一条蛇形队伍，在一个登记处长时间拖延不会对后面排队的人造成不公平的惩罚。

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After a long delay the performance finally started.

演出拖延很久，最后总算开始了。

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After a long delay, we received your letter of June 15.

在耽搁了很久之后，我终于收到了你六月十五日的来信。

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There is also international concern that a long post-election battle may worsen Ukraine's economic outlook and delay the release of more than $16 billion in emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund.

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Congress says America and Russia should ratify it first, which could mean a long delay.

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Then came more paperwork and a long delay before he met with an ultimately unhelpful SCORE representative.

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Incompatibilities between networks led to a long delay in enabling text messaging from one network to another.

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