Sorry for lateness reply. vs Sorry for late reply.

Some examples from the web:

• There's no room for lateness in a company making precision instruments.
• I had you flogged last spring for lateness!
• Four of the sampled importers/distributors sent questionnaire replies. Only two importers, though, provided complete replies.
• Sorry for the silent treatment, gossips.
• Sorry for what I just did.
• Sorry for inconvenience Ms. Gaal.
• -Sorry for the joke yesterday.
• Sorry for making you lose your friend again.
• Sorry for spoiling your evening and...
• And I'm sorry for that.
• I'm sorry for going through your purse.
• Sorry for disappointing you all the time.
• Sorry for interrupting, Mister Kadjic.
• Sorry for this too brief letter.
• Judge will feel sorry for you.
• -Sorry for the rude awakening.
• Sorry for not properly introducing myself.
• I stopped feeling sorry for myself after that.
• I'm sorry for thinking only of myself.
• Sorry for the department's loss.

Some examples from the web:

• I apologize for the late reply.
• The statistics that are collected annually and presented in the SCAC meetings, reveal a problem of late replies.
• The exchange of information upon request, a major instrument of administrative cooperation between Member States, is affected by a high proportion of late replies and by the absence of interim replies.
• He left twenty minutes late and he was very sorry not to have been here to hear your reply.
• Late replies occur in all Member States but their frequency varies significantly between Member States.
• Late replies' notifications were sent in 3 out of 57 cases not answered on time which were examined by the Court.
• Statistics from Member States for 2006 showed that in only 5 % of all cases (737 out of 14565 late replies) had delays been notified to the requesting authorities.
• In some Member States visited with a high number of late replies, the Court found that complicated organisational set-ups also contribute to delays and create problems in monitoring.
• The frequency of late replies varies, however, considerably between Member States (see paragraphs 24 to 31).
• Subject: Late replies to requests for information on value added tax
• the number of late replies to requests for cooperation has reached an unacceptable level;
• Problems (e.g. late replies, lack of interim replies, limited use of possibilities related to the presence of tax officials in other Member States, simultaneous and multilateral controls) are discussed in the SCAC meetings and at Fiscalis seminars.
• half of the information exchange upon request does not take place within the timescales required by the legislation and notifications of late replies or interim replies are rarely given;
• late replies occur in all Member States but their frequency varies considerably between Member States.
• Late replies from other Member States (Article 8(1))
• Four of the sampled importers/distributors sent questionnaire replies. Only two importers, though, provided complete replies.
• Sorry for the silent treatment, gossips.
• Sorry for what I just did.
• Sorry for inconvenience Ms. Gaal.
• -Sorry for the joke yesterday.