A long wait had ended, but the enthusiasm was somewhat premature.

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

"Some of the opposition is somewhat premature," he said.

Today he said it was "somewhat premature" to talk about withdrawing federal forces from Chechnya.

The numbers today clearly showed that the previous day's euphoria was somewhat premature.

Of course, to call it a "plan" is somewhat premature.

But such pessimism seems to me to be somewhat premature.

"I think that in the best of cases they are somewhat premature."

It seems to me, however, that the debate in this House before any pronouncement by the electoral commissions is somewhat premature.

"We believe the timing of a new investment in the office furnishings sector is somewhat premature," he wrote.