How to Use lead time in a Sentence

lead time

noun

• We will need at least six months lead time before production begins.
• While many of the pies on this list ship within a few days, some have a longer lead time.
  — Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2023
• Keep in Mind: This bed has a lead time of eight to 12 weeks from the time of ordering.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2023
• The routines last only a minute or so, but there isn’t much lead time.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• In China, the cheaper models have a lead time of 2 days.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Nov. 2022
• And yes, the NWS has been on top of storm warnings -- offering lots of lead time.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
• Floods are harder, with a much shorter lead time, as storms or fronts stall.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• The normal lead time for commercial ads was four to six months, and now it’s been cut down to two or three.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• Strong conceded that there was less lead time for the Jan. 3 snowstorm than is often the case.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Each chair is made to order, so expect a lead time of six weeks, plus time for shipping.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Why does data indicate that the lead time has dropped since 2011?
  — USA Today, 17 June 2021
• The offer is valid until the end of August and requires a 14-day lead time for booking.
  — Doug Gollan, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• Part of the problem is the lead time needed to make influenza vaccines.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• Interest in an item dropped by almost 40 percent when the lead time upped from two to five days.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• The seven working days lead time allowed the company to pull shipments out in front of the lock down.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Wastewater testing can predict new outbreaks with a lead time of one to two weeks.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Start the process at least three months in advance of the actual holiday (giving more lead time for busier times of the year).
  — Danielle Sabrina, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Yes In our experience, the bigger the furniture, the longer the lead time, but that's where Amazon comes in.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 22 Dec. 2022
• Last year this was much more present in the mind of the consumers and the ecosystem; although with the long lead time on products much of the broad strokes would have been in place before the rise of Covid-19.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Most of the changes affect TV productions as opposed to feature films, which have a much longer lead time.
  — Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• There’s a lead time to bring back and extend operations.
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• The lead time to book and cancel is also longer, and providers can shift departure times by as much as plus or minus six hours.
  — Doug Gollan, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• With that much lead time required for production, Churchill Downs' best option was to leave the 2021 winner blank.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2022
• It’s maddening stuff, like long lead time for equipment.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 11 July 2021
• Be thorough—this will take effort—so give yourself plenty of lead time.
  — Ryan Weissmueller, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Due to the long lead time of cinema releases, the delays may not be noticeable for a while.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
• The thing is, in-demand influencers need a lot of lead time for holiday campaigns.
  — Yec, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Also substantial: the shipping and handling fees for such a hefty object and the long lead time before this item will ship.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Nov. 2023
• At absolute latest, there must be a two-week lead time -- and there probably should be more.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2022
• In an email, a spokesman for Bavarian Nordic explained that each large order required some lead time.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024