in the mean time
See also: in the meantime
English
Prepositional phrase
in the mean time
- Alternative form of in the meantime
- 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
- In the mean time, I lay fairly exposed to the examination of his eyes and hands, quiet and unresisting
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