The phrase "gets too late" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express a situation in which something has been delayed so much that it is now too late to achieve the desired outcome of the situation. For example: "We've been trying to finish this project for weeks, but it's getting too late to meet the deadline."
We may yet recapture our senses before it gets too late.
I learned that there is a safe refuge for women in this neighborhood, and the men here are telling me to head there before it gets too late.
I wrote the story because it seemed important to examine the potential impact of these schemes before it gets too late.
The "narrator" is a journalist in his 50s who is urged by his mother, a survivor of the tragedy, to write about the disaster before it gets too late to interview those who were there.
"We have to make sure we close this hole up before it gets too late," said receiver Devin Hester, who dropped a sure touchdown pass from Cutler when he was wide open up the middle on third down with less than five minutes left.
He added that Russian agencies routinely seek to gather compromising information, or "kompromat," to coerce treason from U.S. officials who "do not even realize they are on that path until it gets too late". The remark appeared to be in reference to Flynn.
Or read them and then act on them, as in dumping the stock before it got too late.
Hope of redemption is offered, at least to Roy, by the crisply laundered heroine, Eve, but we know this prospect is doomed when the inner Norma gets too near Eve's heady wardrobe.
The other bad thing is the weather in the summer: It gets too hot.
But at one point he just says to her, "Me and you Sethe, we got too much yesterday, we need more tomorrow". Too much yesterday, we need more tomorrow.
Re "Drug Companies Get Too Close" (Jan . 20: The article highlights the detrimental impact some pharmaceutical representatives are having on the doctor-patient relationship.
