shortly before
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Officers were called to reports of a disturbance at a house in Station Road, Thurnby, shortly before 00:30 BST on Thursday.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Los Angeles County Fire Department said in a statement shortly before 5 p.m. that its crews were responding to a 10-acre brush fire in Gorman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
"But shortly before the scheduled execution, he suffered a heart attack and was transferred to hospital," said Mai Sato, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Fréchette conceded her own re-election race in Trois-Rivières shortly before 22:00 local time.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Others proposed that Garfield's chest pain shortly before death was more likely the result of a blood clot in his heart.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
