Before long and Earlier

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Before long

Before long adverb - At or within a short time.
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Earlier is an antonym for before long in before topic.

Earlier

Earlier adverb - So as to precede something in order of time.
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Antonyms for Earlier
Before long is an antonym for earlier.
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  • Hulkspeak In the earlier books, they also had a tendency to mix alien words into their sentences, but this decreased before long, and most of the things a Hork-Bajir says are pure English Hulkspeak.
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