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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a minute late" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that arrives or occurs one minute after the expected time.
Example: "I apologize for being a minute late to the meeting; traffic was heavier than I anticipated."
Alternatives: "one minute behind" or "a minute overdue."
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She once grounded Angelica for a month for coming home a minute late.
If the ambulance arrives a minute late, the patient may be dead.
But on Monday evening the doors were locked, a minute late, at 5 31.
In the US, the company disciplines people who turn up for work even a minute late.
Not once did I see a train come even a minute late.
The repressive system's strict rules and regulations include no laughing and fines for being a minute late.
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She would wait with them until their parents came to pick them up from the after-school program, but she couldn't bring herself to enforce the dollar-a-minute late fines.
She arrives a few minutes late, a short, slight young woman in trousers and flats.
He finally found a spot but was one minute late to the session.
Arnold — gap teeth, olive-green eyes, pink corduroys — came in a few minutes late; Bilet, a pair of sunglasses lost in a head of wild black hair, followed.
If your flowers don't come back from the florist perfect or your limo is a few minutes late, take a breath and act like an adult.
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