in the mean time

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English

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Prepositional phrase

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in the mean time

  1. Alternative form of in the meantime
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: [] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] [], →OCLC:
      In the mean time, I lay fairly exposed to the examination of his eyes and hands, quiet and unresisting