The phrase "late compared to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to compare events or activities in terms of when they occurred. For example, "We started our project late compared to other teams in the competition."
We're running a good 20-25 minutes late compared to the official announced schedule.
For example, 31 per cent of regular smokers said they tended to be slightly late, compared to only 20 per cent of non-smokers.
I was late compared to other people, so I watched tons of films and went out all the time for many years, just picking up things".
In breast cancer the figures show that, where staging data has been recorded, almost a quarter of breast cancer patients in London were diagnosed late compared to just 10 per cent in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
Almost half the cancer patients in Merseyside (49 per cent) are diagnosed late compared to 40 per cent of patients in the South West, according to a Cancer Research UK analysis of data that recorded the stage of diagnosis in around two-thirds of all cancer cases in England.
Currently in Germany, the average age at which scientists become university professors is 42, very late compared to other countries.
The present results also indicate that mammary uptake of lysine and possibly methionine is more sensitive to changes in arterial concentration in late compared to early lactation.
Preliminary results, however, showed that prehibernation body mass and body fat proportion was significantly lower in late- compared to early-born juveniles (Siutz et al., unpublished data).
A total of 1,254 genes were differentially expressed in MI-late compared to either rich or nutrient limited agar; of these, a common set of 307 genes were induced in MI-late and 126 were repressed in MI-late compared to both other conditions (corrected p-value <0.001, Additional file 24, Methods).
S. aureus was significantly more common in early- compared to late-onset VAP (44.8% vs 13.9%; P=0.02), while Acinetobacter was more common in late- compared to early-onset VAP (40.9% vs 17.1%; P=0.06).
Notably, 48 of the SSPs were significantly up-regulated during plant infection (MI-late compared to rich media), but were not differentially expressed when comparing expression on rich and nutrient limited agar (Table 5), suggesting that these SSPs may play a specific role during plant infection.> Several cysteine-rich multigene families were identified among predicted secreted proteins.
