before long
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You will be the judge of this Budget's scale – its value, or the lack of it to you – before long.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
To his surprise, the video struck a nerve, and before long Mawarire was leading a protest movement of 12 million people.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
While Comcast executives say the spun-off NBCUniversal entity will have the wherewithal to thrive on its own and invest in the business, much of Wall Street thinks it will become an acquisition target before long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
I’d stock up on bags of beans and rice and day-old bread and, before long, it would be July 7.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
Bill the pony stood patiently but dejectedly in front of the hobbits, and screened them a little; but before long the drifting snow was above his hocks, and it went on mounting.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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