Sentence examples for late instead from inspiring English sources

Or am sixteen minutes late instead of fifteen?

They were irrepressible from the outset here, a team who have tended to rouse themselves late instead stirring early.

The principal in "Elephant" could do that, too, if he bothered to ask John what was making him late instead of just handing him another detention slip.

Now I will just be late instead... #thanks I'd like to thank @Se_Railway for letting me visit Petts wood and Peckham in the last 2 hours of my 20 minute commute to London Bridge Hi @Se_Railway - this didn't happen.

Thus, the Gators found themselves behind by 8 points late, instead of 7. Grossman finished 21 for 41 passing and was not necessarily the best quarterback on the field.

But Carter was mostly courageous at the wrong time — he took his recession late instead of taking it early, as Reagan did — and unlucky: had the helicopters at Desert One worked, and saved the hostages, no one could have called him dithering.

The device will be 50% thinner than the MacBook Pro, use NAND flash memory instead of a hard drive, and "it will definitively arrive at Macworld." Second, it's been suggested by sources close to Jim Goldman of CNBC that a 3G iPhone "will be on store selves by late May or early June at the latest" instead of the end of next year.

After he collapsed last week, but while he was still alive, Ahmed's compatriot refugees and asylum seekers wrote a four-page letter to IHMS pleading with doctors to "give him the kind of treatment his problem need[s]... before its too late... instead of hiding the facts from him".

He'd woken up late — 6 45 instead of 6 15.

He arrived too late, and instead turned his energy to the evacuation of South Vietnamese sailors and their families.

Had the pianist programmed, say, one of Schubert's late sonatas instead, his reach for the composer's expressive, emotion-wracked depth would have been almost self-evident.