How to Use time lag in a Sentence

time lag

noun

• There's a time lag between when you see a stop sign and when your foot steps on the brake.
• The effect should have been obvious, though with a time lag.
  — Jay W. Richards, National Review, 4 Oct. 2020
• But with a time lag of at least half a decade, the question is whether Africa is bound to be trailing behind.
  — Wim Delva, Quartz Africa, 8 Aug. 2019
• The time lag for changes in inflation is roughly two years.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The steering is loose and the brakes only work with an unpredictable time lag.
  — WSJ, 1 May 2022
• The economy reacts with a time lag of about one year, plus or minus.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• The 24-hour time lag for results to come in further complicates the picture.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• That’s the usual pattern, explaining the long time lags.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Julia Lewald, writer: There was a time lag that was happening with all of this.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
• Another problem is the time lag between the robot and Earth.
  — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2022
• Those still don't include the two in the Houston area announced last week because of the time lag before they are reported to the state.
  — Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Because of the time lag, the Fed may decide to stomp down harder on the brakes, triggering a recession.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• Beslik also said the time lag in the revelations was alarming.
  — Kati Pohjanpalo, Bloomberg.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The time lag gives more time for confidence and complacency to build.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• There is also the question of a reporting time lag — the fact that victims often don’t muster the courage to come forward for years.
  — Vincent Carroll, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Paint, stickers, and toys that glow in the dark after a period of exposure to light exploit this time lag.
  — Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
• It was designed to blow up on a time lag, days after U.K. forces had given ground to invading Russian troops.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• The time lag in the mindset shift towards a culture of access could also slow the uptake of using open-source data and mapping tools.
  — Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• On the economic side, port operations are subject to a time lag.
  — John Hammontree | [e-mail], al, 30 Mar. 2020
• The time lag was greater than in the pandemic’s early months, when deaths followed infections more closely.
  — Derek Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2020
• The chicken was a bit of a victim to delivery time lag but retained most of its satisfying crunch.
  — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• First, there is a time lag between the companies’ statements and the data captured in the department’s jobs report.
  — Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• There's a time lag from when prices go down and when farmers begin feeling it, said Ken Nobis, who milks 1,100 cows on a family dairy farm in St. Johns.
  — Freep.com, 1 May 2020
• This followed a development in Europe, though with the usual time lag.
  — John Lukacs, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Remember this: The health of your team is a function of the average time lag between seeing and discussing problems.
  — Justin Hale, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• While there can be a time lag in the identification of group outbreaks, the numbers appear to be declining.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 17 May 2021
• Inflation responds to monetary policy with a long time lag, on the order of two years.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• And the four-month time lag between these molecular twins raises a whole other set of complications.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• That could reflect a time lag between companies’ statements and the data captured in the Labor Department’s reports.
  — Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• And the housing measures enter the CPI with a time lag, further complicating our analysis of inflation.
  — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024