adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arrive shortly/soon
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My parents are due to arrive shortly.
follow shortly (= soon )
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Most EU countries have signed the agreement and the US is expected to follow shortly .
shortly afterwards
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Charles arrived shortly afterwards .
shortly thereafter
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Sophie was born in France, but shortly thereafter her family moved to the United States.
soon/not long/shortly after (sth)
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Not long after the wedding, his wife became ill.
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The family moved to Hardingham in June 1983, and Sarah’s first child was born soon after.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
announce
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He was given a rapturous reception by a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 when the result was announced shortly after midnight.
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Doherty said deals with content providers may be announced shortly but declined to elaborate.
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Nine would be set up in areas to be announced shortly .
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Details of a deal with leisure wear company Cotton Traders will be announced shortly .
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I will announce shortly the work programme for the coming year.
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The match will be all-ticket with an anticipated 25,000 capacity crowd and distribution arrangements will be announced shortly .
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Its location and the names of the major players in the consortium financing it will be announced shortly .
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Further non-Emap consumer partnership deals will be announced shortly .
arrive
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Kenneth Baker arrived shortly afterwards, positively beaming.
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Expecting reinforcements to arrive shortly , he felt fairly secure.
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So when the invitation to become president of BitC arrived shortly afterwards, Charles accepted with alacrity.
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We arrived shortly before dusk and dropped off our bags at the temple.
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The yield from Oxford would arrive shortly .
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Your next invoice will be arriving shortly .
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The rest of the squad arrived shortly after ten o'clock in the team bus.
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She arrived shortly after the invasion.
begin
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Recording will begin shortly for a second title, Better Than Life, which is due in the autumn.
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The debacle began shortly after we arrived for dinner one night.
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In July a series of yellow signs appeared in central London, warning that potentially disruptive pre-construction work would shortly begin .
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The magazine began shortly after Kristol spent about a year faxing unsolicited political advice and opinion all around Washington.
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The period covered by the narrative in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67.
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Consultations with the trade unions and other interested parties would begin shortly .
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It is no coincidence that the latest cycle of rising oil prices began shortly after Chavez came to power in February 1999.
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The alert began shortly after midnight.
come
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Revenge came shortly thereafter, but not upon Marro.
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My hon. Friend will be glad to know that the denial of information will shortly come to an end.
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The announcement came shortly before the close of trading Friday.
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My first glimpse of Strathnaver came shortly after Crombie Saunders' guide appeared, in 1955, on a family holiday.
die
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There were no deaths during the study, but two patients died shortly afterwards.
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His father was a salesman who died shortly afterward.
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One of these presented with a perforated small bowel lymphoma and died shortly after diagnosis.
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Lothair died shortly after the birth of their daughter Emma.
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The experience often leads to depression and serious illness; indeed many people die shortly after retiring.
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Others will languish and die shortly because of lack proper food.
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Two died shortly afterwards and the third one died in 1986.
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Many blood recipients die shortly after their transfusions.
follow
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The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
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The first telephone call followed shortly thereafter.
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His resignation from a job scheduled to end in 2003 followed shortly afterwards.
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The House approved it 414-16, and the Senate followed shortly afterward with a vote of 91-5.
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However, many disk writes are shortly followed by another to the same sector.
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Doing so allows the inflammation to reoccur and an asthma attack can follow shortly .
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Armando Guebuza, expressed the hope that a comprehensive ceasefire agreement would follow shortly .
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By 4 p. m. Monday, half the plants were already down and others were expected to follow shortly .
publish
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Their new Charter will be published shortly .
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A paper written by Mrs. Peel is to be published shortly .
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I understand that the report on that is to be published shortly .
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The government will also shortly publish a survey of spending in 100 grant maintained schools.
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Further details of these changes, together with the new numbers, will be published shortly .
return
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The drivers piled them into cars and drove off to return shortly for another load.
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The men drank brandy and ate kichel and returned shortly after to the streets.
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He returned shortly afterwards but gave no indication to anyone of who had phoned.
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This slow process led in the direction of Hinduism, a vast eclectic synthesis to which we shall return shortly .
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Emily Lightbody returned shortly before five.
say
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Paul Westhead said shortly after arriving.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I've already told them that," Jim said shortly .
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Her last novel was published shortly after her death.
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The President will shortly be on his way to Italy for a trade conference.
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We apologize for the delay -- the train will be leaving shortly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this is not possible, as we shall see shortly !
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Ideally, Brown said, the city should host the Super Bowl in a new football stadium, sometime shortly after 1999.
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Jill quit the habit shortly before Christmas.
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Price Waterhouse intends to publish the survey's results shortly .
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The floating charge obtained recognition shortly before this.
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The incident remained in his mind and was reinforced by another experience he had shortly afterwards.
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We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.
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Wine is intended to be drunk, as I aim to be shortly after finishing this.