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This is a friendly reminder about an overdue invoice.
The train is 30 minutes overdue.
His promotion was long overdue.
I didn't realize that Tom's bill was overdue.
The train is about a half-hour overdue.
This joke was long overdue to be translated.
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This mind would have laid waste to our whole rotten world, which is long overdue for destruction.
And there's some people around here that are overdue to learn that.
Your bill here at the hotel, being overdue. amounts to 6,356 francs.
I'm turning in the cab. It's overdue.
We're overdue for a nice, juicy homicide.
She's overdue and may be damaged.
My husband is overdue.
Stop pressing your luck, you're overdue.
I've got me somethin' to say. It's about 30 years overdue.
We're overdue for some good clean fun, you've earned it, sir.
He's overdue for a desk job and a good rest.
You'd better go to bed,.unless you want to see what happens when the dose is overdue.
THERE'LL BE A SUPPLY SHIP COMING IN SOON, I THINK. THEY'RE EITHER DUE OR OVERDUE.
When you've done that, you can take a richly deserved leave and a long-overdue promotion.
This will be as real as it is overdue.
Overdue, Your Grace.
Look like those boozers are overdue.
I'm overdue now. I really must gibber at the oriel window.
Your account is six weeks overdue.
I'm overdue right now.
Seems I have a childish idea that you were long overdue at rehearsal.
A Transpolar Airlines plane is reported overdue and missing.
You're just about 30 hours overdue. Yes, sir.
They need a fighting general and you're overdue a star.
No, she's just a little overdue, that's all.
They're overdue, aren't they?
You're just about 30 hours overdue.
The 12th Corps needs a fighting general, and you're overdue on that star.
I keep asking which is harder, your head or your arteries? Stop pressing your luck, you're overdue.
The payments are three months overdue now.
Well, it's two years overdue now and all their crops are ruined.
We're overdue for our talk, aren't we?
Your check-in was overdue, and since we'd not heard from your security team.
Come, we are already overdue.
The captain and first officer are overdue and missing on the surface of Eminiar Vll.
The captain is overdue.
Then it's long overdue.
News and current affairs
A NATO summit, during which all members would take stock of the situation and draw the appropriate conclusions, is therefore long overdue.
The long overdue UN Resolution 1701 may, with its adoption, indicate that all parties are fatigued, or could no longer withstand international pressure.
Statements by Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Kofi Annan and others on the occasion of Arafat's death have been forceful in demanding a speedy and long overdue resolution of the conflict.
The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill, which is about to pass the US Senate, does something similar - and long overdue - for banking.
Instead, Putin has allowed Gazprom's management to block proposals from his own government on the long overdue unbundling of the company.
A realignment of the dollar is long overdue.
Along with events in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, it may well usher in an Arab spring of freedom, one long overdue.
Tax evaders were offered deals to repay overdue taxes.
However, mutual interaction and equal partnership remain the only response - especially if they are reflected into long overdue reforms of multilateral institutions and increased global governance.
Reform that targets social spending at true need is long overdue.
Indeed, any standard decision rule used by central banks by now dictates that a hike is long overdue.
That goal will remain unattainable unless and until we establish the long-overdue principle that a child's right to education knows no boundaries.
The change in IMF quotas is a partial and overdue response to the newcomers' rising economic weight and Europe's outdated dominance.
And with paper money - particularly large-denomination notes - arguably doing more harm than good, currency modernization is long overdue.
A shift to external demand is not there for the asking. It must be earned by hard work, sheer determination, and a long overdue competitive revival.
The investment required for competitive revival and sustained recovery cannot be funded without a long-overdue improvement in US saving.
The upheaval among Europe's southern and eastern neighbors may well bring about a long-overdue revamping of the EU's Neighborhood Policy.
Aimed at addressing China's serious aging problem, the eventual consequences of this long-overdue shift cannot be minimized.
Japan is also likely to gain from a long-overdue rebalancing of the US economy.
The political concessions that China would probably demand - for example, EU recognition of the country as a market economy, or a greater voice within the IMF - may be overdue.
Indeed, they probably contemplate land incursions into Iran, and possibly a decisive - and, from their perspective, long overdue - showdown with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Achieving long-overdue peace and stability will be impossible without them.
George W. Bush's administration should be credited for giving overdue recognition to India, but this was done primarily on a bilateral basis.