Sentence examples for last-minute assignment from inspiring English sources

But the day before the call was to come, I got a last-minute assignment.

The Times photographer Doug Mills discussed receiving a last-minute assignment for Memorial Day weekend.

In Ferris's novel, the agency's big last-minute assignment -- to create a humorous campaign for a shadowy breast-cancer awareness group -- is itself a joke.

Last-minute assignment: Believe it or not, if someone gets sick, sometimes you have to step in and play an opera.

It was a last-minute assignment from Look, where Fusco was a staff photographer, and he assumed that his main task would be in Arlington, where Kennedy was to be buried next to his brother John.

3 P.M. (IFC) LAYER CAKE (2005) The rules of the game abruptly change in this gangster film, directed by Matthew Vaughn, when a top-tier drug dealer (Daniel Craig), on the eve of retirement, gets a last-minute assignment from his boss (Kenneth Cranham).

He carries a scenic box for his last-minute assignments -- and they are often last minute.

Her work for The Observer was mostly made up of last-minute assignments.

My Dutch exchange was part holiday, part office swap, so after a few days in Amsterdam finishing some last-minute assignments I set off on my bike into the Dutch countryside.

12 30 A.M. (Starz) LAYER CAKE (2005) The rules of the game abruptly change in this tasty gangster flick when a top-tier drug dealer (Daniel Craig, pre-007, above foreground) gets a couple of last-minute assignments on the eve of his retirement.

It was just another last minute assignment at the time.