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Series of deliveries managed but took too long (7)

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overran

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'took too long' is the definition.
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'series of deliveries managed' is the wordplay.
'series of deliveries' becomes 'over' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'managed' becomes 'ran' (both can mean organised or was in charge of).
'over'+'ran'='OVERRAN'

'but' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for overran that I've seen before include "Went past an end time" , "overwhelmed the enemy" , "Went on beyond the time limit" , "Went on too long" , "Lasted too long" .)

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