"shortly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The child had apparently been born shortly before the plane took off from Newark.
- He was baptised on 30 November 1569, so born shortly before that date.
- He fathered a daughter as the result of a casual affair; she was born shortly before his own death.
- She was born shortly before her father's incarceration as an Ultra.
- Others were born here shortly after their parents arrived, or came under the sponsorship of relatives.
- There will be a child born shortly to one whom you greatly love.
- The couple had one son, who was born shortly after their wedding.
- My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital.
- Their first child, a daughter, was born shortly after his Congressional victory.
- He told me he had been born shortly after the war.
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