in the mean time
See also: in the meantime
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Alternative form of in the meantime
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], 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