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shortly English

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shortly

If something is going to happen shortly, it will happen soon. Relax, the concert will begin shortly.

shortly

for a short time he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive (= soon, presently, before long) in the near future the doctor will soon be here the book will appear shortly she will arrive presently we should have news before long (= curtly, short) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner he told me curtly to get on with it he talked short with everyone he said shortly that he didn't like it at a short distance the hem fell shortly below her knees (= concisely, briefly) in a concise manner; in a few words the history is summed up concisely in this book she replied briefly briefly, we have a problem to put it shortly

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Simple sentences

Tom arrived shortly after Mary left.
He stopped eating and shortly after that he died.
Dr. Stein will be with you shortly.
The mayor will shortly announce his decision to resign.
Shortly after the accident, the police came.
My grandfather died shortly after my birth.
He arrived shortly after.
We got into an accident shortly before the play.
Shortly before her fiftieth birthday, she received the news about the birth of her grandchild.
Tom left to go fishing shortly before dawn.
Wait here. I'll return shortly.
We'll be back on air shortly.
Describe yourself shortly in Chinese.
I'm sure Tom will be here shortly.
He reached home shortly before five o'clock.
I'll be back shortly.
I'll return shortly.
I also think that if the Spanish hadn't discovered Latin America, others would have done it shortly after they did.
We'll begin shortly.

Movie subtitles

They will find the body shortly.
Kimura-sama will be coming shortly.
Dr. Reid will be with you shortly.
We'll get you into surgery shortly.
So shortly before I arrived at the arena.
It was shortly after my performance.
Shortly after our wedding he left us.
A painting of you shortly before the kidnapping.
I'll be looking for you shortly.
Congressman Robert Manning, candidate for mayor, and Albert Panker, candidate for district attorney, both conceded their defeat shortly after midnight tonight. (ALL CHEERING) Wait a minute, folks.
From an apparently empty hat, he shortly produced a rabbit.
I'll be back very shortly.
Ashenden's going to Switzerland to find a German agent who's leaving for Arabia shortly via Constantinople.
Mr. Ashenden is leaving shortly.
Shortly after, Ms. Delys was found dead in her dressing room, stabbed to death with your knife.
I'll be down shortly.
I shall be back shortly.
You see, my friend Mr. McLaurel is heir to the McLaurel estate and we're moving in there shortly.
I'll be around shortly.
I'll be up shortly.
Now. You left the Strand Chambers shortly before five.
He spoke of relieving an important letter in his office. Shortly before five o'clock.
Shortly after 12 o'clock noon, on May 14th last..
He must have been in her flat shortly before my arrival.
Well, you can pass the word along the road. that somebody else will be running the place pretty shortly.
Shortly.
I am going to have a live performance shortly. You will be in it, agreed?
I'm going there shortly myself.
I know your father will return to work shortly.
I'll be back shortly.
My man will be along shortly.
Okay. I'll be up shortly.
I guess shortly after we were there.
We shall have visitors, and shortly.
I'm meeting some men shortly after midnight.

News and current affairs

Yugoslavia gave way to Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia; it may perhaps shortly disgorge Kosovo and Montenegro as well.
Such language is as extreme as any we hear today - and from a man who was shortly to become Vice President (and later President, following the assassination of William McKinley).
Shortly before Christmas, Czech TV's director, who was resisting political pressure, was replaced by Jiri Hodac, a man with close ties to ODS.
Oriana Fallaci published a long rant along this line shortly after the attacks.
Shortly after the election, the Iraq Study Group offered a bipartisan formula for the gradual withdrawal of United States troops.
I am convinced that the hardest phase of the fighting will end shortly after the elections.
In May, shortly after his resignation, he warned Jordanian leaders of complacency in the reform process.
Then there is hepB, which is over 50 times more infectious than HIV and often passed from mother to child before or shortly after birth, increasing the likelihood of liver cancer later in life.
Shortly after redeploying to the borders of Gaza, Israel severely restricted ties between Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the movement of goods in or out of Gaza.
PARIS - I began writing this column shortly after a remarkable anniversary.
With the privatization of Germany's railway, which will shortly be concluded with its listing on the stock market, these civil servants will disappear.
For shortly before the Fischer speech, Lionel Jospin, the French prime minister, argued that the 11 members of the Euro currency zone should form an economic government for Europe.
In Poland, the Democratic Left Alliance fell apart shortly before accession, while the Czech Social Democrats came close to a similar split.
Coming so shortly on the heels of the subprime crisis, the debate over the debt ceiling and the budget deficit is the last straw.
Shortly thereafter, researchers in the United States found a related material that superconducts above the temperature at which air liquefies.
In 2004, shortly before the election, Osama bin Laden released a video tape that may have helped President Bush defeat Senator John Kerry.
But in 2011, shortly before assuming the presidency, Sein, a general who served as Prime Minister under the junta, began to take steps that impressed even the most skeptical observers.
Shortly after Rice's visit, the US announced that it would honor a long-standing promise to sell F-16's to Pakistan.
Gates, however, is due to step down from his post shortly, which is unfortunate, because the Obama administration's apparent lack of any explicit Asia strategy means that Gates's reassurances might not reassure for very long.
The Bank of Communications listed on the Hong Kong stock market shortly after the HSBC investment, so it has been able to provide the market with more information than have the banks that are still awaiting privatization.
The introduction of the euro by a number of them - Estonia is likely to follow shortly - has also been a remarkable success story.
The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia's last largely free-flowing river, with work on the first project - the giant, 4,200-megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet - to begin shortly.
When the Doha trade round was launched shortly after September 11, 2001, there was plenty of international goodwill.
Shortly after taking office, the administration faced a crucial strategic decision about the scope and breadth of its agenda.
Shortly thereafter our squares filled with hundreds of thousands of people who made it clear that they had had enough of life without freedom.

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