Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• Mr President, honourable Members of the European Parliament, Commissioners, please forgive me first of all for my lateness, which is not due to any lunchtime whim but simply to the fact that Jacques Chirac, the French President, was with us.
• Now please forgive my lateness, but I wasn't sure how to find Greendale sober.
• My lateness might as well have been absence.
• Mr President, I apologise for my lateness.
• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must once again beg forgiveness for my lateness.
• Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, another event of European significance is responsible for my lateness or at least gives me an excuse.
• Please forgive my lateness, I'm sorry.
• I apologize for my lateness, senator.

• There's no room for lateness in a company making precision instruments.
• Four of the sampled importers/distributors sent questionnaire replies. Only two importers, though, provided complete replies.
• I had you flogged last spring for lateness!
• Sorry for inconvenience Ms. Gaal.
• Sorry for the silent treatment, gossips.
• Sorry for what I just did.
• Sorry for the joke yesterday.