not long before

常见例句

Her father had moved, not long before his death, to this last remote way-station in a lifetime of wandering.
她父親在死前不久才搬到這裡。在他漂泊的人生中這裡是遙遠的、也是最後的停靠站。
He was not long before he reached the rock, and found out the place, by the tree and other marks which his brother had given him.
他沒用多長時間就到了那塊巖石，就根據他兄弟告訴他的樹和其他記號找到了那個地方。
This photo was taken several months ago, just before he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and not long before my daughter was born.
這張照片拍攝於數個月前，不久他被診斷出患了2型糖尿病，沒過多長時間我女兒出生了。

He continued to broadcast on VOA until not long before his death in 1996, at the age of 75.
The less than side is gonna be a less than sign, and then the word and is going to become not one & but two ampersands back to back, and we'll see why it's two and not one before long.
小於“側還是用的“小於“,而中間的“and“將去掉,換成兩個緊挨著的&符號，但至於爲什麽是&&而不是,我們以後會提到。
哈彿公開課 - 計算機科學課程節選
Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

It was not long before critics and commentators starting calling his reform by another word: privatization.
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Not long before the Internet search giant's 2004 IPO the technorati likewise pooh-poohed Google's potential.
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"Usually when a patch comes out, it's not long before people have an exploit, " Kaminsky says.
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