The project was running late owing to unforeseen circumstances.

这个项目因意外情况而拖延了。

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I was running late.

我有点晚了。

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I was running late today.

我今天迟到了。

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Kaczynski is running in the place of his twin brother, the late President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in April along with his wife Maria and 94 others in a plane crash near Smolensk,Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

The keynote speaker, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was running late, someone announced.

WSJ: Spontaneity for Hire: Flash Mobs Go Corporate

Karen Woo kept looking at her watch and sighing because Lynn was running late to her own meeting.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Then We Came to the End'

One breast augmentation patient stormed out of the office and never returned after being told I was running late.

CNN: Long wait at the doctor's office? Blame the patients