| She had felt as though Luca were getting closer and closer until a short while ago. |
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| The dogs which but a short while ago had been barking and howling were silent, and a thick, damp mist was rising up from the hollow. |
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| Just a short while ago I spoke with the point man for the president's economic agenda, the U.S. treasury secretary, John Snow. |
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| A U.S. military convoy of Humvees came under attack just a short while ago. |
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| Meanwhile, we now know more about this academic, monetary economist than we did a short while ago. |
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| It was hard to see, since the sun had gone down a short while ago, so I took out my penlight and shone it around on the ground. |
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| They' are two hydraulic cutters and a pulverizer that were used a short while ago to demolish a four-storey industrial building in Bad Laasphe. |
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| That is why I announced a short while ago that we were unable to continue dealing with a question. |
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| Countries that seemed perfectly safe a short while ago now represent a risk for the companies that do business with them. |
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| For example, a short while ago, we realized that one business had kept back a large payment instead of sending the money to our account. |
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| Today's consumer has access to resources and information that were, until a short while ago, limited to the financial services professional. |
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| Looking at the stiff stems topped with dry flowers, it is hard to believe they were, only a short while ago, thick and fleshy and held above a mound of soft, succulent leaves. |
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| A short while ago, I chanced to be in Dallas making a documentary film. |
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| A short while ago, the editors of The New York Times confirmed this disheartening report. |
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| Modi, one suspects, will be in no hurry to visit the land that considered him unfit for entry only a short while ago. |
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| I remind him that a short while ago the Prime Minister made a speech on how our new government would address the issue of land claims. |
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| Then we're going back to new versions of movies that were only out a short while ago. |
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| Just a short while ago, some of Latvia's canned fish was withdrawn from circulation in Russia. |
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| Sir, I only found out about the delay here, a short while ago, when I saw the file following an access to information request. |
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| I am, therefore, very sorry, as I said a short while ago in plenary, that he was not able to join us. |
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| Acceptance of entries closed a short while ago and the results will be published in June: therefore, I cannot give anything away at the moment. |
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| That is something we said a short while ago when we were debating the Rapid Border Intervention Teams. |
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| These claims were highly debatable a short while ago, but the arrival of the 2009 CTS-V backs them up in brilliant fashion. |
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| Things that were newsworthy only a short while ago are no longer that novel. |
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| I mentioned this a short while ago, when we dealt with the issue of natural resources on reserves. |
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| In the statement which you made a short while ago, you also outlined the functions of the coordinators. |
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| We can now successfully manufacture complex parts that would have been very difficult or impossible for us to make just a short while ago. |
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| That is the selfishness that was being expressed a short while ago, and we must not give into it now. |
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| Today's state-of-the-art miniature drives allow practical solutions that noone could imagine a short while ago. |
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| He texted me a short while ago and said how much he enjoyed his decompression in Cyprus. |
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| I comment on how terrific she looks, even though she had been in the grave only a short while ago. |
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| I fully share your insightful analysis voiced a short while ago, and in this respect I accept your suggestion that we should not elaborate on the concerns and frustrations of my delegation, at least not on this occasion. |
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| Commissioner Michel was spot on when he said, in a meeting in this regard just a short while ago that the more poverty there is, the more instability there is. |
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| This is already the case, and it will increasingly become so where Russia and the issue of Siberian overflights are concerned, as Mrs Kauppi highlighted a short while ago. |
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| A short while ago, the Council of State has also been asked advice on a law that will empower the government to transpose another 20 directives in this way. |
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| We should not forget as well that until a short while ago customs officials checked your baggage, asking you what you had bought, how much you had spent, as if you had some form of contraband. |
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| Just a short while ago, concern with online predators was so dominant that anyone trying to draw attention to the problem of cyberbullying felt like a voice in the wilderness. |
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| Internet: Here's one I picked out of a users trash bin a short while ago. |
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| A short while ago I asked the minister for an indefinite rate freeze on the ferry run from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and the minister scoffed at the idea. |
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| Just a short while ago, I raised some concerns in the House to the minister, Minister Dhaliwal, because of cutbacks that were happening in the Newfoundland region. |
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