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Sentence Examples The full funding of long term care as an integral part of a universal health service is long overdue. I'd decided to buy a new storm door for the house and new wood blinds for the kids bedrooms and a long overdue haircut and highlighting. It would stimulate overdue reform of hidebound institutions, whether regulatory bodies or royal colleges. Nicky Henderson's gelding is at his best on right-handed tracks and, after a series of good efforts in defeat this season, is overdue a win. That mediocre, built-on-the-cheap excuse for a bypass is overdue for an upgrade. Despite the financial uncertainty at the club, a contract offer seems overdue. All I'm saying is that we're 7 years overdue for skinny ties and narrow lapels. The refurbishment of the town hall in Naas, now three months overdue, is expected to cost in the region of half a million Euro. The amenities have not materialised and are now long overdue and residents are becoming uneasy about when they arrive. This resignation was, I believe, widely expected and arguably long overdue. The goalie finally received his overdue medal during the first week of the games. In the late 1860s Whitman received overdue recognition in America as the early reactions to his radical style began to fade. But when the masterpiece arrives, 37 years overdue, can it live up to its own myth? Given that I have only 5 weeks of maternity leave, having the baby come even a week overdue could be a real drag. In due course, the drug worked and the amazing little baby even went a week overdue. Still, the other girl's baby wasn't overdue so it appears to be the luck of the draw no matter what way you give birth. Janelle, who is just 5ft 1in tall, went into labour when the baby was 12 days overdue. He wants desperately to be at the birth but the baby was four days overdue when he had to come to York for the UK event. I enjoyed my three supposedly overdue weeks, and my instinct was always that my baby was thriving. The situation is placing an additional strain on the 20-year-old, whose baby is now one week overdue. Show More Sentences There is a slight sting in the tale for borrowers of library books that are overdue, however. Back over a more suitable distance tomorrow, he can gain an overdue success in the hands of Tom Greenall. The letter is written in an apologetic tone, apparently because the return of the books is overdue. It's in every backbencher's hands to make today the day Britain has a long overdue conversion on the road to Damascus. The last flu pandemic in 1968 caused one million deaths and the next is long overdue. The Legislature has been considering an overdue pay raise for judges all year. He is talking, believe it or not, about an overdue, ponderous but worthy apparatus for punishing war crimes. After years of cavalier behaviour, the day of reckoning for the British insurance industry was long overdue. He served in the Army for 23 years and thinks a war memorial in Wootton Bassett, where he lives, is long overdue. An independent inquiry into the validity of animal experiments is long overdue. Change is overdue to the framework within which the international community approaches Burma. It seems to me that a rethink of educational policy in the way pupils are taught and the subjects they learn at school is long overdue. A couple of overdue emails took the edge off of the urge but didn't sate it. Regardless, council agreed, making an effort to fight the problem is long overdue. The spokesman said that Mr Byers admitted there were problems with the present formula and that change was long overdue. An industry drive to make that tangled web more secure is long overdue, he says. While in Mexico to retrieve an overdue debt, he finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love, passion and betrayal. Really, this was one area that was long overdue and kept Ontario students from keeping on par with their interprovincial counterparts. The service code runs every two minutes and checks the job queue if there's anything that is overdue and needs to be executed. The veteran guard deserves much overdue praise for his work ethic in a ball club that is filled with top players. Show More Sentences But that's the way the cookie crumbles and more than a few fans will feel Montgomery's dropping is long overdue. The true aim is to get back in contention, and for that to deliver a sense of contentment that is long overdue. To this feverish regime of irresponsibility, is it possible that he has recently administered the first bracing douche of an overdue cold bath? Any outside suggestion that reform was overdue was denounced as an assault on our sovereignty. It is long overdue, and is the outcome of thoughtful consideration and review. Instead, he has produced a mealy-mouthed, begrudging and long overdue response to the commitments made under the Good Friday Agreement. Let me suggest that for William, heir to the throne, the monarchy is a Gordian knot whose time for cutting is well overdue. Most other cruel medieval practices have been stopped for a long time, and this was long overdue. Through it, the Dalits have come to acquire a dignity and pride that is unprecedented, but by no means overdue. About the closest you can get to immoral behaviour was a few overdue library books. The move is long overdue and it's mostly belated good news for shareholders. Similarly overdue is a more general debate on the limits, or lack thereof, of political debate. They appear to have reached pandemic status within urban areas and a cull is long overdue. The councillors were unanimous in their agreement that new hospital facilities were long overdue in the town. Newspapers, overdue bills, grocery lists, and scraps paper filled the hollow space. Some time back in school mugging up on the re-instated Scottish system would perhaps help to instill in them a little overdue modesty as well. If they are indeed as poor as Mr English and others would have us believe, then a media slaughtering of the other teams is long overdue. She does not deny owing the money, it is long overdue and it is up to her how she comes up it. The time is overdue for public outrage at the crimes being committed in the name of criminal justice. Whether you're for or against the war, a full-throated debate in the media is overdue. Show More Sentences This is long overdue and it would be a crying shame if he was overlooked permanently. But perhaps now we'll be given overdue respite from the rantings of those intent on persuading us he was some kind of miracle-worker. The international laws that served us in the aftermath of the Second World War are overdue for reform. So perhaps now is not the time to disengage from North Asia, although pulling the US troops away is long overdue. Mobile phone users now have only fifteen days, instead of thirty five, to clear overdue bills before they are disconnected. We're overdue for a rethinking of the United Nations in general, from top to bottom, including its underlying principles. But there are also parts of the legislation, such as the disaggregation of performance data, which were long overdue and need to be embraced. When he heard about this seemingly overdue admission by the trainer, Carberry grinned broadly. Lenders first exclude ineligible assets, such as receivables that are more than 90 days overdue. A hardened approach to this problem is long overdue, but it must have teeth. In any case, a loving, non-confrontational talk about your entire relationship is way overdue. I'm supposed to be chained to my desk, living off bread and dripping, writing a radio play that is long overdue. The mere threat of legal action or exposure as a non-payer can fast-track overdue payment. But a tribute to this remarkable woman is long overdue, from me as a colleague and friend and as a spokesperson for the journal. And on top of that, the economy itself was long overdue for a recovery almost regardless of what the government was going to do. This is a terrifically fun, raw and guts-forward record that was way overdue for a larger audience. Foot found out that a frank talk with her daughter was overdue when she found a stash of contraceptives hidden in her 14-year-old's room. At this point, I decided to make my overdue pilgrimage to the loft, about a mile away along a dirt track. No theory can be taken as forever canonic and the case of Greek mythology is long overdue for a new paradigm. The coordinating committee at that time predicted that the next revision would be a rewrite in 1997-8, so a new version is overdue. Show More Sentences Last Thursday's ban on the barbaric sports of hunting and coursing with dogs is a great and long overdue advance for animal welfare. Now the former England Under-21 is hoping his goal and City's triumph will mark an overdue lift-off for both himself and the club. He says from now on they will not have to pay fines on their overdue library books, they cannot be arrested for being drunk and disorderly and they get free parking. Or perhaps next September is too long to wait for a demonstration of appreciation that is already overdue. She welcomed the increase in maintenance grant, which was long overdue. Sectoral sanctions that could cripple the Russian economy are also long overdue. To be sure, a popular work reappraising the issues associated with McCarthy is overdue, and a reappraisal of McCarthy himself is not to be despised. The promises of benefit are false, and government action to curtail this kind of fraud is long overdue. Allow some leeway on return times since trips often take longer than expected, but having someone ready to call for help if your group is overdue is a wise precaution. The subject of creativity is long overdue for a reevaluation. Some 660HP units, long overdue overhaul, were equipped with stack arrestor and roof-mounted deflectors in an attempt to offset exhaust fumes in the cab. During the chaos, many old grudges were settled, sometimes under the guise of overdue justice. Currently housed in trailers and portables on the east side of the campus, the move will be a welcome and long overdue change according to contemporary arts faculty members. Another requirement in this context is that investors should not incur overdue liquid tax liabilities or a social security debt, including interest thereon. The matron of the private home wrote to a local public representative to highlight the old woman's plight after she had accumulated debts of 6000 in overdue payments. Months back, when I took vacation in Myrtle Beach, I had the chance FOR ONCE to not think about work and have some me time, because it was long overdue. His old man is an ageing slumlord who continuously guilt-trips his son into collecting overdue rent from tenants with whatever blunt object is available at the time. And if horse racing endures and survives, it will be the result of an overdue focus on the august animal that defines the pastime. It felt good to write... overdue, words as witness to the mistakes and record of the sacrifices. The portion of loans that were more than 30 days overdue fell from 2.32 percent to 1.87 percent. Show More Sentences The prospect of yet more exploitative taxes to support reproducer indulgence means that a questioning of the bio-political privileging of natality is long overdue. I'm about three weeks overdue for my monthly snuffles, I reckon. Specialists said commercial space venture was long overdue and technically feasible, but warned the initial price may be too high to attract enough spacefarers. A dysfunctional Credit system once again dodges the bullet that would have forced the commencement of a long overdue and desperately needed adjustment. The eight-year-old fulfilled the promise of several creditable placed efforts with an overdue success in a valuable handicap at Hamilton last week. To dispatch the wrong past, and recover the right one, was part and parcel of the country's overdue arrival in the safe harbour of a modern democracy. A debt-collection agency hired by the phone company to chase customers with overdue bills has been accused of using heavy handed techniques to recover money. Fortunately, the government has finally woken up to the situation and has announced a long overdue stocktaking of adoption agencies and a review of adoption procedures. He said the step was long overdue as the flats were in a poor condition because of the substandard material used by the engineers of the department. The three rest camps in Etosha are overdue for basic maintenance. These studies are overdue and of importance to our discipline if we are to be able to understand the significance and the role such awards play in our cultural development. Many critics are saying troop withdrawal is already overdue. The nuclear family paradigm is well overdue for an overhaul. It had been almost 10 years, so Barry was overdue for a visit. Baillie's recent return to the form he showed in his youth is overdue. Okay, that wage increase for home health workers was overdue. Bermuda's taxi drivers haven't had a fare increase since 1997, making them long overdue for an inflation-linked one even in the absence of any improvement in service. The need for consideration of the issue of truth in public and parliamentary discourse within democracies has been long overdue for re-examination. Our 11 o'clock drinking curfew is antiquated and overdue for reform. This whole area is well overdue for public scrutiny and systematic reform. Show More Sentences The opening of any new playground or the development of designated play areas for children is long overdue and something to be welcomed wholeheartedly. More fundamentally, the nascent threat of pharming re-emphasises the need to revamp DNS systems and domain registration that critics argue is long overdue. Perhaps it is my contrary Scottish highlander nature, but I see the scoring change as a very positive step for the professional game, if a little overdue. Banks are now free to charge interest on overdue bills as they wish to. The big news this year is, of course, the opening of Cairngorm's high-speed funicular railway, a facility that, as far as skiers is concerned, is long overdue. With members of Congress itching to gavel their lame duck session to a close, the biggest hurdle remains a catch-all spending bill that's now weeks overdue. Ironically, it has resulted in a hike in the overdue rate and the number of credit defaulters as many households with heavy debts failed to pay the increased interest. Both Travelocity and GENIP believe that recognition for excellence in Geography Education is long overdue but comes at an appropriate time. Since Keith Dunstan's 1979 book Ratbags, no overview of Australian ratbaggery has been published, so in some ways such a study is overdue. The bulk of this money paid for long overdue development of the BFI National Archive facilities in Hertfordshire and Warwickshire. In our post-unipolar moment, such a reassessment is long overdue. However, modern research has shown that payments were made to supporters of union that appear not to have been overdue salaries. In a long overdue full-length study, art critic Matthew Kangas brings to life the art of Robert Sperry. A massive air and sea search was launched at around noon on Tuesday after the 16ft fishing boat Water Rail was reported overdue. Those boys from Kentucky Nappy Roots are back with The Humdinger, the long overdue follow-up to their 2003 release, Wooden Leather. Such a structure is overdue, since the wooden groynes have long disappeared and the sand is getting washed away there. I was telling my bathing buddies my great-nephew was concerned that his auntie hadn't decided on a name for the now overdue baby. It was often described as a prisonlike facility and was overdue for a redesign. That corporation is only slightly pettier than they are greedy, and they are overdue to reap the consequences. It's a long overdue smack in the face for a company that couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery. Show More Sentences She then considered magnetic reversals on the Earth, as we are about overdue for the next one. This is not a vote-catching statement, but one that is long overdue. Little Nieve Myles-Ward may have been a more than a week overdue, but her hasty arrival was a shock for grandmother Tina Ward, who had to deliver the tot. A zonk was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize. A second attack came on the cost of the war, which, he argued, prevented overdue social reform in England, such as old age pensions and workmen's cottages. Looking at this issue from a Humanist perspective, we can see how today's government-sponsored fear mongering is long overdue for a thorough debunking. The news came while the Iranian embassy in Dushanbe in a letter to Tajik Electricity Company in February asked it to pay back its 12-milion-dollar overdue debt to Iran. Liam Plunkett was England's hero with bat and ball against India at Lord's yesterday as they gave themselves a shot at a long overdue Test victory. If you cannot, the sum of the credit is classified as overdue, and then the interest rate for paying it off doubles and you in fact have to pay 4 manats 20 gyapik for 1 manat. I know this is long overdue for some of you, but I just want to send out a public THANK YOU to all the Boingoloids who have helped my OB collection grow. Examples from Classical Literature The post from Europe was long overdue, and no news had been received from the Baikal for ten days. She crawled on, do or die, and people at home began to think of posting us as overdue. The religieuse hovered sleepily in the background with an overdue and neglected dose. The president had threatened him if he did not pay what was overdue. A rigorous investigation of how the Incas worked their materials and carried out their major masonry works is long overdue. He passed the flagman, going like a brunet typhoon ten days overdue. We are overdue now for my tryst with this new governor at New Chicago! A supervolcano erupts about every 50,000 years, suggesting we're overdue the next one. This,' said Squeers, 'is a bundle of overdue acceptances and renewed bills of six or eight young gentlemen, but they're all MPs, so it's of no use to anybody. Seating myself in a corner of the transept where I could see all and be little seen, I with the rest awaited the coming of the overdue bridegroom. The last steamer in from Honolulu had brought information of the date of the expected sailing of his yacht Toreador, which was now twenty-four hours overdue. Find more words! 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