# Applying a delay to with\_items steps

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/applying-a-delay-to-with-items-steps/17079>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 16, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/applying-a-delay-to-with-items-steps/17079 "2014-12-16T19:15:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@Guido](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guido)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/applying-a-delay-to-with-items-steps/17079/1 "2014-12-16T19:15:20Z")

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Hi,

I’ve been using Ansible for 5 months now and I must say I love it. My life is much more easier now! Well, I have a question for you, there is chance to apply a delay to the following task without using “do-until”?:

> - name: stop running processes  
> uri: url=“http://{{ api\_ip }}/target/stop/{{ item }}”  
> method=POST  
> with\_items: processes.running  
> connection: local

Looking in the doc of Loops I could found the “delay” argument that do-until has. Is there something I’m missing here?

Thank you, regards, Guido.-