Sentence examples for it was rather late from inspiring English sources

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

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".

It's not that you have to be a fan — I was rather late to the R.E.M. party myself — but my goodness, they were everywhere.

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

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

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

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.

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