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Example Sentences
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A teenager who died after being hit by a car on a motorway had got out of an ambulance shortly before the crash, police say.
From BBC
About a month ago the company said it had agreed to buy the international assets of Lukoil, shortly after the Russian oil producer was hit by U.S. sanctions.
But Maduro’s economic honeymoon with China was short lived after he took over in 2013, as loans and grants to Venezuela shortly afterward slowed to a trickle.
Home midfielder Franck Honorat had the ball in the net shortly after half-time but his effort was chalked off by VAR for offside.
From Barron's
A poll conducted shortly after Franco’s death showed that 29% of Spaniards felt an “irreparable loss,” with a further 53% feeling “pained and saddened.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
