A last-minute hitch?
a last-minute change of venue
There were plenty of reasons for the last-minute adjustment.
Many of the victims were doing last-minute Christmas shopping.
An actual government is not yet in place; last-minute hiccups may yet occur.
Everyone knows that cramming is just a last-minute effort and won't help with the exam.
The vote was the focus of a last-minute onslaught from the US health insurance industry.
Not unless prewedding nerves, last-minute jitters, and horrific amounts of stress count.
As a consistent habit of life, regular discipline is of far greater value to any athlete than last-minute preparation.
A shop may have to juggle numerous small orders and revisions and deal with last-minute changes or even cancellations.
Martin and her boyfriend Jeff Belizaire decided to escape the snow by taking a last-minute getaway to Jamaica.
It is time to rush out to Nanjing Road to sweep the stores for the last-minute discount.
On the day of the launch, Shepard's flight was actually delayed due to weather conditions and last-minute repairs.
The deadline at most colleges is still a few weeks off, so a last-minute flood of applications could raise the Numbers to last year's level.
ALMOST as soon as last week's deal that seemed to herald a new coalition government after eight months of negotiation had been announced last-minute hiccups began.
Being a party of one makes you far easier to fit in—for a restaurant table, theater seat, or any last-minute booking.
There was opposition to Tata's original plans to site the factory in West Bengal, forcing a last-minute scramble to switch the site to Sanand.
Reward travelers for advance bookings and Build rate on that base rather than offering the best deals on last-minute bookings.
It’s the result of a last-minute effort to meet targets for reducing the country’s energy intensity—the amount of power consumed per unit of GDP produced.
This last-minute hitch rather thwarted the earlier regulatory due diligence carried out on behalf of Prudential by lawyers Slaughter & May.
When I was pregnant with Arjun, I'd wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning and, unable to fall back asleep, end up canceling my early morning meeting at the last-minute.
The Spaniards took the ransom, and then get ready to burn Atahualpa at the stake until he made a last-minute conversion to Christianity, which prompted them to show "mercy" : they hanged him instead.
Huang Jianxiang, who was commentating for an audience of millions on the state-run CCTV, was unable to control his enthusiasm when Fabio Grosso went down in a challenge and a last-minute penalty was awarded to the Italians.
An actual government is not yet in place; last-minute hiccups may yet occur. But a new balance of power, not all that different from the previous one, is emerging.
The Crawley-based group called in the administrators in the early hours of the morning after the failure of last-minute talks with its financial backers, the Icelandic investment group Straumur.
