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Discover LudwigThe phrase "shortly read" is not correct or usable in written English
To use something similar, you could say "briefly read" or "read quickly". For example, "I read the article briefly and found it quite informative".
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'The returning officer took the six candidates aside and told us the figures that he would shortly read out from the platform.
If it can't sleep shortly, read it a long book or play it some soft music.
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A year or so later he resumed what he calls his "scribbling", and shortly after read his first blockbusters when he was given The Exorcist and The Day of the Jackal.
I came to the anti-semitic poems shortly after reading The Waste Land.
Shortly after reading Casner's discussion of the dangers of kayaking while intoxicated, I had a beer and went kayaking.
"Shortly after reading a book on Jane Tomlinson's life, I heard how fly-fishing could benefit ladies with breast cancer.
(An Amiri Baraka book from 1970 was called "It's Nation Time"; so was an incredible album Mr. Baraka made shortly thereafter, reading over free jazz).
Shortly before reading your article, I was doing some research on the neurophysiology of what psychologists call the reward prediction error.
I went through a terrible phase as a teenager – shortly after reading Marco Pierre White's White Heat – of serving heavily reduced jus with everything I cooked.
We have a team scouring the report and a series of stories about each important element will appear on MediaGuardian shortly: MediaGuardian, reading Digital Britain so that you don't have to.
Shortly after reading this episode, I was crossing the Castillian plain on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela when I saw in the hazy distance what looked like the baked brown earth crumbling and swirling about.
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