He belatedly began his Christmas shopping today with a stop at a Peace Corps boutique in downtown Washington.

Fast-forward to the 1970's, when Brittany belatedly began sharing France's postwar economic growth.

Early in 1942 PR belatedly began to convert its locomotives to burn oil, but it did not complete the conversion programme until 1943.

Efforts belatedly began to repair the peacetime neglect, but it was too late to prevent disaster.

Kalo belatedly began to unload the captured devices onto the Boss's desk.

The questions in Mercutio's eyes gave Benito momentary qualms, and he belatedly began to pick his words with care.

This response to the news was in contrast to many other leading newspapers, which only belatedly began to regard the battle as a victory.

I was belatedly beginning to realize her technique.

Startled by shifting shadows where there should be nothing but open expanse between her and the view of the ocean, Kimberly belatedly began to come awake.

But it was only when the Government belatedly began announcing allocations for 1987 that the full problem struck home.