The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
In any case, such a disaster would make an end of the modest Budget surpluses which Italy, unlike the other great Continental nations, has been able of late years to achieve, and the ruin of a flourishing port with considerable silk industries and of a large area of fertile country must alone cut off much of the revenue of the kingdom.
There are always announcements of projects that are late, years late, or get killed or just fail.
Russia last saw this level of civic engagement in the late glasnost years of the Soviet Union.
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Matthews became aware of Mahlasela's music more than a decade ago, during his late teen years in South Africa.
The '59 Sound was recorded in two weeks, and much of it captures the moment when the renegade in his late teen years bumps into the responsibilities of the adult world for the first time.
By then I was about 30 and a good 10 years late to the game.
Christmas messages written by German soldiers stationed in Jersey during WWII have been delivered 71 years late.
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It is three years late, at least 5bn euros over budget and the government is reviewing its cost.
Energy had peaked at 25% of the Index in the late 1970s, years after the Arab oil embargo.
Deliveries began more than three years late, and yet serial production problems didn't lessen the promised improvements in travel.
The busway route, which links Huntingdon with Cambridge and Addenbrooke's Hospital, was opened two years late, in August 2011.
The housing contracts had cost considerably more than originally planned and had been, on average, two-and-a-half years late, it added.
The project was delayed by complexity and coordination issues, and the part actually came to market in 2001 three years late.
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But it's "come years late because of Speaker Quinn's obstruction, " he said.
So you are about four-and-a-half years late on leadership on this issue.
The project is three years late and at least 5bn euro over budget - or more than double that according to some calculations.
"It will be a honeymoon 50 years late because we had no money to go away when we got married, " said Mr Lisk.
That was rebound growth from the late 90s crisis years, coupled with steadily rising oil prices in the bubble years between 2000 and 2007.
With respects to scale-out NAS, NetApp was seven to eight years late (depending on how one counts the dates) with delivering scale-out capabilities to its platform.
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When DEC finally did, it was not only years late, but a dual-processor, overpriced kluge, ending DEC's serious participation in the greatest tech market of them all.
ANA, which is already seeking compensation for the plane's being two years late, now faces the prospect that it will not be available for delivery early next year, as had been promised.
Even the Space Shuttle, about to be retired after 30 years of service, was itself three years late to the launch pad, and that was after Shuttle main engines blew up on their test stands.
The A400M military transport plane program was launched six years ago with an order for 180 planes from seven governments--Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey--but the project is running at least three years late.
Nor did the Fed expect that it would need to use unconventional methods to continue easing after hitting the zero-bound, which is perhaps why it was years late in moving to the open-ended quantitative-easing policy adopted last year.
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The company founded by Bill Gates will be more than 2 years late to the red hot tablet market, which, according to reports, is beginning to cannibalize PC sales, and will be facing increased competition from later-generation products.
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In short, America is years late in transforming our nuclear strategy and stockpile from a Cold War orientation to one focused on today's adversaries - and tomorrow's - and to the different and far more distributed threats they represent.
The NAO report also casts doubt on the MoD's claim that the new carrier-based strike force will be fully operational by 2020, saying a decision to delay investment in Crowsnest, a helicopter-based early warning system, means it will be two years late.
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