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before long

soon. Billy will be grown-up before long. If we keep spending so much, before long we'll be without any money.

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before long

soon I think we'll be finished with this before long.

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before long

Soon, in the near future, as in The baby will be teething before long. This idiom was first recorded in 1865.

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before long

Soon.

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