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the painters ought to be done before long
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Everything seems off to a solid start, but before long things get a bit tense when Zoe interrupts the group’s slam dunk competition to steal Grant away for a moment alone.
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2025
Suspicion fell on his wife, who had, it was alleged, put arsenic in Mauroy’s soup, but the damage had been done: before long, the French authorities had officially banned blood transfusion in humans, with the British government and the Pope following suit shortly thereafter.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Some tried Fire Road, an alternate evacuation route during emergencies, but before long that passage was surrounded by flames, residents said.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
But when hundreds of millions of users are updating, even a very small percentage impacted is a large number of people—and those people can be vocal and can take to forums and social media to make their point, and that gets picked up and amplified, and before long there’s a perception issue.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2025
Suspicion fell on his wife, who had, it was alleged, put arsenic in Mauroy’s soup, but the damage had been done: before long, the French authorities had officially banned blood transfusion in humans, with the British government and the Pope following suit shortly thereafter.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Some tried Fire Road, an alternate evacuation route during emergencies, but before long that passage was surrounded by flames, residents said.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
But when hundreds of millions of users are updating, even a very small percentage impacted is a large number of people—and those people can be vocal and can take to forums and social media to make their point, and that gets picked up and amplified, and before long there’s a perception issue.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Before long.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/before%20long. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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