It's a minor problem.

What a delay!

I'm late with my period.

Even the merest little thing irritated him.

It's only a minor setback.

Delay between slides

The difference in our ages is not significant.

This delay has provoked much speculation.

Tom is a late bloomer.

The less delay, the better.

This small sum is unworthy of US leadership.

An insignificant scene from some random pitched battle.

Our delay was due to traffic congestion.

Inequality is not a fringe issue.

The real success of the equipment was a valve in the helmet.

Unfortunately, years will elapse before negotiations over EU membership will conclude and be ratified. Stalling until that time is postponement by other means.

Stalling until that time is postponement by other means.

Only a minority of the children who inherit the gene(s) have symptoms severe enough to require medical attention.

Why is the delay and why is there so much redtape in each step?

But delay in grasping it will be very costly, and Europe is running out of time.

For Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the delay in reforming the IMF is a serious annoyance.

BRUSSELS Has the energy weapon of the 1970 s the withholding of energy supplies for political ends returned?

(b) There is undue delay in the remedial process which is attributable to the State alleged to be responsible

The expert fears that a delay could also occur in the commissioning of the S 500 ADMS.

Yet it also noted that the region s biodiversity was under massive threat, with little or no protection.

Such associations demand only a small part of the individual's resources, sometimes only a token monetary contribution.

NASA engineers finally came to the conclusion that there were too many files on the file system, which was a relatively minor problem.

The compilation of data required to provide the Executive Board with the most current information has delayed the submission of the present report.

But it's a trivial price to pay in order to make China's future more secure and peaceful for millions of Chinese.

The alternative is stunting, which currently afflicts an astronomical 165 million children.

After all, Sudan is not a small, insignificant country it is the tenth largest the biggest in Africa and in the Arab world.

China s approach represents a huge disguised tax on savers, who are paid only a pittance in interest on their deposits.

Maybe explaining this number is just a technical issue, a technical detail of interest to experts, but of no relevance to anybody else.

Given scarce resources, we must ask ourselves do we want to do a lot of good now, or a little good much later?

Yet, even in Palestine, the key water issue is not thirst, but arrested economic development.

Indeed, stunting has come to represent the true face of contemporary global poverty, causing irreparable damage to children s cognitive development and physical growth.

But, as the latest evidence shows, delaying action will mean higher costs later.

That flight's delay caused the subsequent delay of a few other flights, including an Emirates flight from Dubai and a Qantas flight from Sydney.

International agencies estimate that more than 100 million people fell into poverty as a result of higher food prices during 2007 2008, and that the global financial and economic crisis of 2008 2009 accounted for an increase of another 200 million. Delayed job recovery from the global downturn remains a major challenge for poverty reduction in the coming years.

Delayed job recovery from the global downturn remains a major challenge for poverty reduction in the coming years.

One survey showed only lukewarm support for the LDP in the proportional representation vote, and a narrowing of the gap between the ruling parties and the opposition parties in the electoral districts.

The consequence will almost surely be a slower recovery and an even longer delay before unemployment falls to acceptable levels.

Indeed, one of the most interesting features of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and possibly the most consequential as well is the very minor role played by Islamists.

That amount may seem unrealistically high, but it is a negligible proportion of the estimated 160 billion spent on health related R D worldwide.

While the City of London was shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the run on HBOS, Sotheby s staged a record breaking auction for the works of the artist Damien Hirst, which produced a gross take of around 200 million. Compared to the values that were being destroyed on Wall Street, this was small change but it was a remarkable vote of confidence in the work of one artist.