[duration] late
Frequency: 9.045.0 per million words
Specifies the exact amount of time by which one is late.
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Examples (10)
- The train was 45 minutes late.
- She arrived ten minutes late for the meeting.
- The flight is expected to be two hours late due to bad weather.
- He was an hour late for his own wedding!
- Despite leaving early, they were still a few minutes late.
- The delivery was three days late, causing much inconvenience.
- The bus ran fifteen minutes late during rush hour.
- The concert started half an hour late.
- I'm afraid I'll be twenty minutes late for our appointment.
- The project is already a month late, and we need to speed up.