This was apparently a belated effort to find some clue.

However, all these belated efforts have now been brought to an end.

They stood suddenly in a belated effort to bow.

I never mattered much to begin with, so my belated efforts will be inconsequential.

It was a belated effort to set the historical record straight.

In belated effort to break the blockade it took to the U-boats.

But even belated efforts to provide some technical training are falling short.

The measures are a belated but ambitious effort to rescue the economy.

Then he was asked about the government's belated efforts to help the poor in the South.

In 1939 a belated effort was made to improve flexibility and increase the number of radios.