1、shortly before:not long before
2、The telephone call came shortly before dinnertime.
3、We arrived shortly before the film started.
4、Eat a light snack shortly before bedtime.
5、Terra’s view is shortly before noon each day, and Aqua’s is shortly after.
6、Terra's view is shortly before noon each day, and Aqua's is shortly after.
7、She described hearing "terrible noises" shortly before the arrest.
8、Mozart composed his last opera shortly before he died.
9、Eating shortly before going to bed is responsible for sleeplessness.
10、The most recent visit was a surgery shortly before Thanksgiving.
11、The envoys left Seoul shortly before the funeral began.
12、Those infected shortly before (1 to 3 days) or shortly after immunization can still get the disease.
13、Newspaper Die Welt was also offered shortly before arriving in Paris.
14、A friend once told me about going to see her father shortly before he died.
15、THE snow was still coming down as shortly before dawn we set out once again.
16、He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
17、Your cordial letter reached me shortly before my departure from Japan.
18、Grace was baptised a few weeks before Easter of 2010, and therefore shortly before the last general election.
19、Researchers discovered women feel most confident and happy with their love life and body shape shortly before they reach 30.
20、Our route led us through northern Italy, where we stopped at the beautiful Lago Maggiore, shortly before entering Switzerland.
21、This means that you can lock these values into the pattern or provide the values shortly before deployment.
22、Abbas submitted the request for UN recognition to the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, shortly before his speech.
23、The deacon now had forgotten the squire as he had only so shortly before forgotten the widow.
24、Though we've never had a catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did have a close call shortly before we decided to simplify.
25、Initial investigation has revealed that the man had direct exposure to diseased and dying chickens in his household shortly before the onset of illness.
26、Giggs was forced off shortly before half-time against West Bromwich Albion, and United missed him badly in the second half.
27、By lunchtime, shortly before several newspapers were due to challenge its position in a High Court hearing, Carter-Ruck lifted its opposition.
28、Corrections to the document were made shortly before the project was presented to the bank's board, then amended, then inexplicably dropped.
29、We learned that shortly before this interview he had visited the staff dorms, where he stood in silence for a while before instructing that the living environment be improved immediately.
30、The ship was observed collecting electronic intelligence (ELINT) off the coast of Japan during February 2000, shortly before several PLA Navy warships conducted an exercise in the East China Sea area.
