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Adverb
not long
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, long.
- "How long have you been in the service?" ―"Not long."
- (UK) Fairly recently.
1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 138:" […] You ought to try one of these biscuits. They're good."
"I've not long had breakfast," Morgan told him.
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