"Aren't we going to be awfully late with all these delays?"

Brennan said, "It's awfully late in the trial to introduce new witnesses."

It was awfully late for someone to be calling.

"Once you can see clearly visible signs that inflationary pressures are embedded, it seems awfully late in the game" to act to stop inflation.

"I think it is awfully late to be here for the first time," Bobby Valentine said last night.

It seems awfully late in the day for the President to cling to this highly political balancing act, and all to do what?

But a Justice Department official questioned the timing of the accusations, calling them "awfully late and vague."

"It's going to be awfully late for her, Louis."

It's getting awfully late to be on the road.

So, as you note this is an awfully late breakfast.