in the meantime
See also: in the mean time
English
Prepositional phrase
- meanwhile
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 101:
- "In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride."
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
Translations
meanwhile — see meanwhile