Belated Sentence Examples

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  • I sent a belated apology, but had no reply.

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  • A very belated Happy New Year to you all.

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  • His eyes clouded with belated concern and his voice lost its edge.

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  • You need to send belated congratulations to the list of awardees from last night's celebration.

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  • As a belated welcome, "Many greetings to our two new female members who now grace our band."

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  • I sent my belated congratulations to Steve.

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  • They were taking a belated honeymoon in St Lucia at the time of his death.

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  • A belated attempt of the French left to intervene was checked by the British cavalry, and the pressure on the centre and right, which were now practically surrounded, continued even after nightfall.

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  • The succeeding years of disunion and misrule under the Danes explain the belated affection with which his countrymen came to regard him.

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  • It was a belated sequel to The Quiet Man.

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  • He added a rather belated listing for the Torquay Book Fair on March 20th.

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  • And when for want of these active troops the first great victory proved indecisive, 1 Belated declarations of war appeared on the loth.

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  • King Henry and those who wished to please him professed as great a hatred and contempt for the new purveyors of German doctrines as for the belated disciples of Wycliffe.

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  • Ian Sowman takes a slightly belated look back at last weekend's news at Rockingham, with images by Phil Burridge.

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  • For Austria we may read Prussia; for Ulm, Jena-Auerstadt; for the occupation of Vienna, that of Berlin; for Austerlitz, Friedland, which again disposed of the belated succour given by Russia.

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  • He comes before us as a belated epicurean, whose airy trifles cannot be warbled in an atmosphere surcharged with tempests and gunpowder.

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  • His belated attempts to reform the constitution only led to conspiracies against his life and crown, in which the French faction, which he had been the first to encourage, took an active part.

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  • They gave employment to a body of conversi and labourers under the management of a monk, who bore the title of Brother Hospitaller - the granges, like their parent institutions, affording shelter and hospitality to belated travellers.

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  • The excellent lyrical poet Frans Mikael Franzen (q.v.; 1772-1847) and a belated academician Johan David Valerius (1776-1852), fill up the space between the Gustavian period and the domination of romantic ideas from Germany.

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  • The single figure of Ammianus Marcellinus stands out of this age like a belated disciple of Tacitus.

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  • For the sake of the great cause, the international contingent will have to take into consideration even belated remorse.

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  • I thought I would try the effect of a little belated discipline.

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  • The belated Scholastics who lingered beyond the last mentioned date served only as marks for the obloquy heaped upon the schools by the men of the new time.

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  • Stanley went back in May to pick up his belated rearguard,leaving Mounteney Jephson and a small escort to accompany Emin round his province.

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  • In 134 famine compelled John Hyrcanus, who had succeeded his father Simon, to a belated compliance with the king's demands.

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  • At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard.

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  • Soon the Roman centre, which had been belated in its march, arrived upon the field and completed the work of destruction.

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  • The necessity of putting a stop to belated prosecutions on this account in the town court led to the acceptance of the rule that nobody who had lived in a town undisturbed for the term of a year and a day could any longer be claimed by a lord as his serf.

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  • On the other hand, the so-called groundwork has no existence unless in the minds of earlier critics and some of their belated followers in the present.

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  • Sorry for the belated congrats, but congrats anyway!

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  • We, his parents, were on a 10-day, 24 year belated honeymoon in St Lucia at the time of his death.

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  • Touching, but don't you think your concern is a little belated?

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  • Among the higher altitudes of north Derbyshire, where the soil is poor and the climate harsh, grain is unable to flourish, while even in the more sheltered parts of this region the harvest is usually belated.

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  • The significance of Parkman's work consists partly in the success with which he has depicted the North-American Indians, those belated children of the Stone Age, who have been so persistently misunderstood alike by romancers, such as Cooper, and by detractors like Dr Palfrey.

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  • The French officers, who stated that their presence was due to 1 On the 26th of July a French gunboat also entered the estuary on a belated annexation mission.

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  • The nature of sterilization, and the difficulties in securing it, as well as the extreme delicacy of the manipulations necessary, made it possible for a very long time to be doubtful as to the application of the phrase omne vivum e vivo to the microscopic world, and there still remain a few belated supporters of abiogenesis.

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  • In a belated modest moment, she clamped the shirt shut and headed for the house.

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  • We offered the hand of friendship after the belated apology, but had no reply.

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  • It regrets this omission and offers a belated unqualified apology to her for the action it took.

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  • Peter Finch for Network 11 The Two Jakes was a belated sequel to which film?

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  • Bacon summing up the movement so far as he understood it, in a rather belated way, has no theory of knowledge beyond the metaphor of the mirror held up to nature.

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  • Stories of witch revelry seen by belated travelers were often told.

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  • Happy (somewhat belated) birthday, young man.

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  • Such improvement in the administrative performance of the NASS section 4 team, however belated and incomplete, is of course very welcome.

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  • Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that "the First Column will march" and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.

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