-- A recent news story reported that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin delayed 103 airplane passengers 10 minutes in London while they finished their drinks.

If an event is sent on two channels at once, the event on the higher-numbered channel cannot transmit until the first one is finished, and so is delayed by 1ms.

In 2002, the Kings held a jersey retirement ceremony and erected a life-sized statue of Gretzky outside the Staples Center ; the ceremony was delayed until then so that Bruce McNall, who had recently finished a prison sentence, could attend.

The film's production was frequently delayed because, unusually, the film started shooting without a finished script.

Work was delayed by the composer's poor health and by his compulsion to revise his early symphonies, and by the time of his death in 1896 he had not finished the last movement.

In the Preface to the Reader he claims to have finished the book on March 14, 1663 though publication was delayed for another nine years until 1672.

The agreement with his original publisher, Gosselin, was that the book would be finished that same year, but Hugo was constantly delayed due to the demands of other projects.

In the race he set fifth fastest lap and finished 11th after being delayed for two laps by a faulty temperature gauge.

The town of Kochsville was founded when the Clinton, Bloomington and Northeastern Railroad was finished from Colfax to Bloomington ; in 1880 the part of the railroad from Kankakee to Colfax had been finished, resulting in the 1880 founding of Cropsey, Anchor, and Colfax ; but the remainder of the railroad was delayed for two years.

In September 2005 the band finished the recording phase of their fifth studio album, Meds, which was released on 13 March 2006 ( delayed in the US until 4 April ).

The performance was delayed until late April — the parts were not finished until Good Friday — but the completed work was rehearsed before a full audience on April 29.

However, a backlog of orders for his pianos delayed him an additional 18 months, as the Mexican workers he employed left to return to their homes and join the Mexican Army following the outbreak of war in April of that year ; he finished the orders himself.

These are then simulated using a modified version of the Gillespie algorithm, that can simulate multiple time delayed reactions ( chemical reactions where each of the products is provided a time delay that determines when will it be released in the system as a " finished product ").

In a finished product such a change is to be prevented or delayed.

While the album had been finished in the spring of 1990, its release was delayed until the beginning of 1991 by the band's label Food Records.

In early 2010 the band finished a second LP tentatively titled The Beautiful Sounds of Revenge, originally to be released on May 25, 2010, but delayed two weeks and released on June 8, 2010.

Alain Prost finished in fifth position after being delayed by a slow late-race pit stop.

Other notable performances came from Berger, who took the final podium position despite being delayed during one of his routine pit stops due to a problem with a loose wheel nut ; Mika Häkkinen, who finished fourth for the McLaren team despite its new car proving to be uncompetitive in pre-season testing ; and Mika Salo, who drove strongly in the first half of the race to run third in his first Grand Prix for the Tyrrell team, only to suffer from a cramp and drop back to seventh place at the finish.

The band finished recording the album in November 2006, but due to assumed conflicts with their label, the album was delayed.

They finished recording most of the album in August of that year, but complications with WB delayed the release.

Black Widow was delayed continuously, despite a finished Binaltech story chapter.

Construction, however, was delayed for nearly three decades as the state finished construction projects on I-95, I-295, and the originally unsigned portion of the Main Turnpike.

* The Land of the Vikings, along with Mole-in-One Golf, were readvertised as new for the 2008 season, with Vikings ' River Splash finished and the second ride of the land, the Zamperla ' Rocking Tug ' Longboat Invader, opening after being delayed from 2007.

The fourth census was held in 1981. The fifth census was delayed to March 1998.

A fifth full series was frequently delayed because of a cast member's illness, but recording of the four episodes of series five took place in April 2005 ( postponed from January ).

Although never being officially cancelled, a fifth season has been delayed several times so far.

This two year period meant that legislation introduced in the fourth or fifth years of a parliament could be delayed until after the next election, which could prove an effective measure to prevent it being passed.

This two year period meant that legislation introduced in the fourth or fifth years of a parliament could be delayed until after the next election, which could prove an effective measure to prevent it being passed.

Moonlighting, then in its fifth season and starting to fall in the ratings considerably ( greatly thanks to the 1988 WGA strike, which delayed the premiere of many programs for the fall of 1988 ), was removed from the ABC schedule temporarily in February 1989 when the network decided to expand the Tuesday comedy offerings to two hours.

The album was finally going to be released in November 2009 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of ODB's death, but eventually got delayed again.

The fifth version was accepted in 1899, but fundraising problems delayed the project for decades.

The first four volumes were published in 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910 respectively and the fifth volume in 1932, delayed because of M's health problems.

Berger attributed this to Ferrari's unique semi-automatic paddle shift gearbox, saying that his return would have been delayed if Ferrari still used the traditional gear stick transmission used in all the other F1 cars in 1989.

Ferrari driver Luigi Villoresi charged his way from the back of the field after being delayed by the pile-up, but did not finish.

Prost was passed on lap nine by Nigel Mansell, leading a Grand Prix for the first time, when Prost's TAG engine was misfiring and he was delayed by both Corrado Fabi's stalled Brabham and Michele Alboreto's about to be lapped Ferrari just before the tunnel ( Prost actually hit a marshal who was pushing Fabi's car away but thankfully with no serious injury ).

The World Championship of Drivers, fiercely contested by Jim Clark, John Surtees and Graham Hill, was decided at the Mexican Grand Prix when Hill was delayed after a collision with Lorenzo Bandini's Ferrari.

A planned tour for June 2010 to promote Moon On A Mirrorball was delayed, but went ahead in October, encompassing 13 towns and cities.

On lap 47 Mansell pitted but a sticking wheel nut delayed him and enabled Prost to pull ahead.

They ran in these positions until the first round of pit stops, when Irvine delayed Fisichella sufficiently for his team-mate Schumacher to emerge ahead of them both and regain third.

Since disease delayed his travels, he sent half of his army ahead under the command of the Duke of Feria.

He reached safety just ahead of a fierce blizzard, which probably would have killed him, and which delayed the rescue party by a day and a half.

As both groups converge on the Mask of Life, the Piraka are a little bit ahead and they set an ambush, with the Toa Inika ending up trapped and delayed.