Meaning of not long | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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