Before long and Later

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Before long adverb - At or within a short time.

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Later is an antonym for before long in topics: right away, in the near future, sooner than expected, in a short while.

Later adverb - Following in time or place.

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Before long is an antonym for later.

Later a friend with a motor boat offers to take them on a tow, and, naturally, before long he breaks into another indignant speech about those clumsy assholes on their stupid rowboats, who cannot see where they are going and get in the way of respectable people and how he'd like to murder them all.

Source: Literature / Three Men in a Boat

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