So why is SME lending a bit behind the schedule outlined in Project Merlin?
Often a startup falls behind the schedule it has set for itself.
The target date for completing the sale was September, but the privatisation is already behind schedule after the deadline for potential bidders to express interest was extended by three weeks earlier in the year.
With the movie within the movie wildly behind schedule and hemorrhaging money, the beleaguered director (Steve Coogan) orders the actors into the jungle of Southeast Asia to improvise.
With orders for around 200 aircraft, the project is already two years behind schedule and leaves the company facing expensive penalty clauses.
First, the body's work has fallen behind schedule because of the row and subsequent resignations over Professor David Nutt's sacking.
But the vast overcentralised scheme has fallen four years behind schedule, and the government is edging its way towards a scaled-down version.
Olympic and Fifa officials have in the past expressed concern that many of the city's major building project are behind schedule, including the renovation of the Maracana stadium.
As seems to be par for the course with Kickstarter projects, the blockbuster smartwatch is more than a bit behind schedule, but the team is hot on the case, keeping backers in the loop with regular update posts.
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With worries that preparations for the World Cup were running behind schedule, Marin said in the statement that it "made no sense" to stage the 2015 Copa America when Brazil has also to deliver the 2013 Confederations Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The launch is months behind schedule because of technical difficulties, but in the runup to its debut, Al Jazeera International has managed to poach an impressive array of Western journalists.
The reasoning behind the choice of both location and schedule is to accommodate the working needs of the participants, who often work an average of nine hours per day and reside at the construction sites.
The BBC spokeswoman claimed the concert was "running behind schedule" and producers wanted to insert the Crowded House video at that point "to reflect what was happening across the globe".
When the telephone company ran weeks behind schedule in installing necessary wiring, Davidson bought cell phones for everyone in the company.
Yet much of Dodd-Frank is behind schedule, with the bulk of it still unwritten.
Since then, however, North Korea's foot-dragging and brinkmanship have left the project far behind schedule.
The NAO also raised its concern that the Olympic Delivery Authority's transport plan for the Games was behind schedule.
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Although work on building those reactors has started, the project is behind schedule.
The national government hopes to have nursing-home places for 290, 000 old people by March 2000, but plans are falling behind schedule all across the country.
He was speaking during a two-day visit to Kiev, where preparations for the tournament are running behind schedule.
But the product lagged months behind schedule and was available only in March.
Despite some recent progress, preparations for the referenda are still behind schedule.
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But North Korea has dragged its feet over the inspections, justifying its refusals by pointing out that the reactors are way behind schedule.
The Council on Foreign Relations released a report Thursday that said repeated technological failures had put the Bush missile plan behind schedule and likely over budget as well.
It also became clear from our contact with schools and colleges that, despite their reassurances, the SQA were substantially behind schedule in collecting internal assessment data from schools and colleges.
The festival is running behind schedule and lacks coherence.
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The report found that the original work of the Environment Agency's second survey of historic buildings, up to 2007, represented a "Rolls Royce" approach, which "contributed to the survey falling significantly behind schedule".
After the challenge 2010 hosts South Africa has faced getting facilities ready for the continent's first World Cup, and with 2014 hosts Brazil having already been criticised for falling behind schedule, England will hope they catch the eye of Fifa by representing a safe pair of hands.
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