"a minor late" is not a correct phrase to use in written English.
A phrase like this is often heard in spoken English, but it is not standard usage. A correct way to phrase this in written English would be "a few minutes late", as in: "I apologize for being a few minutes late."
Once, the artworks he made with pieces of painted paper cut-outs were regarded as a minor late phase of his career, divorced from his earlier innovations in painting.
In the Harrisons' more intimate second dining room was a single painting, a Rothko, blocks of burgundy and black against a larger block of darkest blue — a minor late Rothko, Maurice de Borbón had told Robert, who was admiring the painting, or admiring the obvious Rothkoness of the painting.
Interspersed among better- and lesser-known artists hang a 1917 portrait by Matisse, two minor late Picassos, a couple of Lucian Freud paintings and a reproduction of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, reworked in watercolour by Duchamp himself.
Mendelssohn wrote this quartet in 1827, soon after Beethoven's death, and in it he alluded not only to his little Voss song but also to one of Beethoven's late quartets, the A minor (Op. 132).
Yedlin, minor late aberration aside, was a confident and productive wide attacking option as much as he was once a fourth choice right-back.
And why Gopnik, a minor player, late to the stage?
Even a minor breach — late maintenance payments or improperly disposing of garbage — can justify a lawyer's letter, with the fee passed along to the shareholder.
There was a minor scare late in the game too when defender Thomas Rogne needed treatment for what looked like a thigh problem.
Save for a minor and late threat, the Broncos game was over by the third quarter.
But he needed more support to push England out of a relative comfort zone, and Broad (three for 22) grabbed the minor late glory.
After arranging the murder of these delegates and even of some Romans who suspected him, Ptolemy departed for Ephesus, in Asia Minor, late in 57.
