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System disturbance nonlinearities are subject to feedforward growth restrictions with unknown growth rate. In the spirit of dynamic scaling change technique, a novel pair of time-varying-gain observer and controller is proposed. Compared with the existing results, the controller proposed is capable of handling the difficulties caused by the zero-dynamics, the uncertainties and the unknown time-varying delay. With the help of the Razumikhin theorem, it is shown that the closed-loop states asymptotically converge to zero. 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