not long before

基本解释

Her father had moved, not long before his death, to this last remote way-station in a lifetime of wandering.
她父亲在死前不久才搬到这里。在他漂泊的人生中这里是遥远的、也是最后的停靠站。
He was not long before he reached the rock, and found out the place, by the tree and other marks which his brother had given him.
他没用多长时间就到了那块岩石，就根据他兄弟告诉他的树和其他记号找到了那个地方。
This photo was taken several months ago, just before he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and not long before my daughter was born.
这张照片拍摄于数个月前，不久他被诊断出患了2型糖尿病，没过多长时间我女儿出生了。

He continued to broadcast on VOA until not long before his death in 1996, at the age of 75.
The less than side is gonna be a less than sign, and then the word and is going to become not one & but two ampersands back to back, and we'll see why it's two and not one before long.
小于“侧还是用的“小于“,而中间的“and“将去掉,换成两个紧挨着的&符号，但至于为什么是&&而不是,我们以后会提到。
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Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

It was not long before critics and commentators starting calling his reform by another word: privatization.
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