So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy.

Once Upon a Time" is a somewhat tardy follow-up to Mr. Aarons's first book, "A Wonderful Time (Harper & Row, 1974), which is similarly filled with pictures of beautiful, wealthy, famous people having fun.

That lately didst exclaim in Lombard phrase, Depart thou, I solicit thee no more,' Though somewhat tardy I perchance arrive Let it not irk thee here to pause awhile, And with me parley: lo!

The bill providing for this somewhat tardy acknowledgment was rushed through at the last moment, and it is said that the Congressional clock was set back so that this enactment might become a law before the administration changed.

In 1892 Boudin was made a knight of the Légion d'honneur, a somewhat tardy recognition of his talents and influence on the art of his contemporaries.

But the Sabine men, although in my opinion somewhat tardy, were not totally inactive.

I hasten to express my warm thanks, and I congratulate the public on your somewhat tardy resolution to give a larger proportion of text.

This initiative is somewhat tardy, since other industrialized countries - such as the United States, Australia and Canada - have effectively adopted global strategies intended to reduce emissions.

However confident everyone upon the island might profess to be that succor would be sent them from their native land-- for Britain never abandons any of her sons--it could not be disguised that that succor was somewhat tardy in making its appearance.

And as he glances at a photograph of the father he battled so often in life, he decides he might be writing this book "to provide some somewhat tardy redress to that gangling young man."