Sentence examples for it's rather late from inspiring English sources

It's rather late in the day to be proclaiming one's Americanness, or one's musicality, with defiant displays of machismo.

It's spectacular, but it's rather late in the day.

"To call this a historical decision would be an exaggeration, particularly as it's rather late in the day.

It's something of a shock to note that this musician, who is, to my mind, one of the greats of his generation (he was born in 1950) should never have been showcased in this capital venue before; I had the privilege of speaking with Zacharias yesterday, and, when I asked him about this odd delay, he admitted that "it's rather late for this" but said that the timing also had an advantage.

And it is rather late for the 61-year-old second son of George H.W. Bush to do much about his surname.

The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California, said it was rather late to start insisting on offsets to pay for disaster relief.

It is rather late in the day to be trotting out old standards like On Kawara date paintings or Andy Warhol's film "Empire" for a show about time.

He added: "By the time it was evident that it was a bubble and that it was going to create risk to the financial system, it was rather late to address it through monetary policy".

It might be that 1963 is too early for just about everyone under pensionable age to remember, but we can still understand Philip Larkin when he says it was "rather late for me".

The 60s were not to hit Ireland for another couple of decades, and the country was still in the clammy grip of the priests and their acolyte politicians – it was one of the latter who declared in parliament that there had been no sex in Ireland before the coming of television in 1962, which, as the poet Larkin has it, was rather late for me.

As Huntford observes in his book, "It was rather late in the day to think of this".