A short while before, three other regional directors — the state has six — who were in their early to-mid-60s retired.
Or the people who had been about to sit down to breakfast a short while before might return.
Another rocket had fallen in a nearby street a short while before, outside the home of Shula Dahan, 56.
The video that helped fuel the revolt showed an angry crowd outside the government building where, a short while before, Bouazizi had set himself on fire.
And then, at the same bar stool where he had phoned in the crabs just a short while before, Mr. DeChellis did just that.
The robot, named Gammonoid, had a visual-display backgammon board on its chest, which exhibited its moves and those of its opponent, Luigi Villa, of Italy, who by beating all his human challengers a short while before had won the right to play against Gammonoid.
Our own men, five thousand strong, had nothing to fear, for the deputies of the Germans had left Caesar but a short while before, having asked for a truce that day.
The secretary of state appeared pretty presidential too, with a very strong statement, a short while before, melding a tribute to the ambassador, condemnation of the attack and an assertion of American greatness.
He stands for a short while before again lowering his head, inflating his chest and starting another sequence of booms.
A short while before the official data come out they are provided to writers in a room at the organisation in question.
He will rest for a short while before heading to California.
