Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] too late " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once diagnosed , a patient is lucky to survive for five years for , unlike cervical cancers , lung cancers are usually spotted too late for doctors to be able to destroy them . |
| 2 | But recognition has probably come too late to influence Mr Savimbi . |
| 3 | If the egg is laid after the host has begun incubation , the young cuckoo will probably hatch too late to eject its nest mates . |
| 4 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 5 | But these have often come too late . |
| 6 | The selection of a building contract for a particular project is unfortunately often left too late to allow proper consideration of matching the contract to the job . |
| 7 | And , although child abduction is a criminal offence , finding the child often comes too late for prosecution to take place — the parent has already left Britain . |
| 8 | But that may well come too late for Donald Johns . |
| 9 | As soon as the delicate lining has been interfered with , the ovum finds it difficult to make its way to the uterus and may either arrive too late for successful implantation or , which is worse , may implant in the tube itself , giving rise to an ectopic pregnancy ( tubal pregnancy ) . |
| 10 | Never mind too late now . |