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shortly

adverb as in right away

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According to the two county officials, emergency management staffers said they were not told to issue an evacuation order until shortly before the 3:30 a.m. alert went out.

Ventura Port District Harbor Patrol officers spotted the truck bobbing by the boat launch ramp shortly before 11 a.m.

At a meeting shortly after the allegations became public, several commissioners expressed frustration with being kept in the dark about certain cases of officer discipline.

Tara Wright, 17, crashed the car and died shortly after going behind the wheel.

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The four additional people travelled down to south Wales in two vehicles and left shortly after the incident, South Wales Police said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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