before long

"They prepared you to kill and to sacrifice yourself," he says, adding that before long, this fetishisation of death began to take hold on him.

Yet the arrangement often sets up a power struggle from the start, and many companies end up abandoning it before long.

The water started entering people's houses, and before long, the Gwange area where he lived was submerged.

Some of the others I have spoken to will be out and about before long, but are focused for now on touring the tearooms and attempting to fill their spreadsheets with the names of supporters.

She is naturally angry with him for leaving her, but before long she is calling him “Dad” and engaging in spiky banter.