Sentence examples for a hour late from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a hour late" is not correct in written English.
It should be "an hour late" due to the vowel sound at the beginning of "hour." You can use it when referring to someone or something arriving or occurring one hour after the expected time.
Example: "The train arrived an hour late, causing many passengers to miss their connections."
Alternatives: "one hour behind" or "an hour overdue."

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The unrest began as the caucus at Francis Howell North High School was called to order more than a hour late, then delayed again when a member of the crowd refused to put away a video camera, as required by the rules outlined by the local Republican Party.

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"I would be an hour late, an hour and a half late—I mean, very bad," he said.

A quarter of an hour late to the Royal & Derngate.

Then one evening a player arrived an hour late, and Mrs. Truscott filled in.

More than an hour late brought a $200 refund.

Later that night Mr. Stein arrived half an hour late to a dinner party of editors and agents in their 30s.

On Friday, the group's first day in Missouri, Nash showed up half an hour late to a radio interview.

We started half an hour late with an audience of around 50 legislators and aids.

If you call a meeting, they come half an hour late.

Grumpy, because he was an hour late and I had a busy teaching day.

They didn't have a radio broadcast, and I was an hour late as it was".

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