Sentence examples for was slightly late from inspiring English sources

"O'Halloran is very quick and I was slightly late.

I went for the ball but was slightly late".

As if the meeting at the Ritz Carlton with one of the most powerful men in the world (for which I was slightly late) wasn't intimidating enough, the wait for him to join me — during which the hotel staff informed me of his preferred booth — had me more rattled than I've ever been for a briefing.

The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, incensing Ford.

In 2010 and 2011, the Malaysian race's start time was slightly earlier, at 4 p.m.

The data show that basal OCR was the highest (510 pmoles/min/100 000 cells) with glucose in the medium, which was slightly (10 20%) dampened by palmitate-BSA.

She leaves a message on my phone saying she'll be slightly late.

Eye opening and extubation were slightly earlier.

4 Bake the salmon until it is slightly 15-20 minutes.

Another biographer, Ascanio Condivi, says no, the painting is slightly earlier, done maybe in 1487, before Michelangelo's apprenticeship.

The costumes were slightly 1920s-ish – ball gowns, tennis whites – but deliberately playful and improvisatory, because Shakespeare calls for all this cross-dressing.