Meaning of not long | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, long.
2. Fairly recently.
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Equivalents

Examples

“"How long have⟳ you been in the service?" ―"Not long."”

“"[…] You ought to try⟳ one of these biscuits. They're good." "I've not long had breakfast," Morgan told him.”

“So I'd be going along to Elam Church sometimes and they had to go to a spring⟳ to get⟳ their water for the church; the spring⟳ was less'n a quarter of a mile from the church, good spring⟳ of water. And I'd be there, maybe not long got there, or I'd be there a pretty good while before I'd see⟳ her.”

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