shortly
B2UK /ˈʃɔːtli/US /ˈʃɔːrtli/
Meaning
adverb
a short time; not long
“She arrived shortly after us.”
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“This is 2012, shortly after 2012.”
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“ringer um and then shortly thereafter in”
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“Shortly after he published my first novel, I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me”
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