meanwhile
In the meantime, the shares will continue to trade on the open market.
Your teacher will be here soon. In the meantime, can you get on with some reading, please?
The school will have to be rebuilt. In the meantime, teachers are using portable classrooms.
The gas supply will be restored, but in the meantime, we are preparing cold meals.

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meantime | American Dictionary

meantime
noun[ U ]
us/ˈminˌtɑɪm/
the time while something else is happening:
Rick wants to be an actor, but in the meantime he’s working as a waiter.

Examples of meantime

meantime
In the meantime, he evades the examination of divisive historical themes.
However, in the meantime, we have to deal with our current options and design an effective and realistic strategy.
In the meantime, how can one judge its efficacy?
In the meantime, together with the cantons, the federal government has introduced a model decree for isolation prescriptions.
At this step, contextual knowledge is proceduralised and in the meantime operators postpone actions as sequences.
In the meantime, opposition to the regime was growing.
Part of the plan was to upgrade her skills in the meantime, while relying on her husband's wage.
The cigarettes proved to be very costly: he would eventually pay for them with his life, and in the meantime with prolonged suffering.
But in the meantime, there is nothing inherently irrational about conceding to mystery.
In the meantime, germplasm must be continually evaluated for disease resistance, among other agronomic traits, including perennial habit.
In the meantime, they were to conduct an active campaign of mobilization across the country.
In the meantime, the claim exists independently of any claim-holder's or duty-bearer's actual subjective attitudes about (x, y).
In the meantime, sequent calculi provide a powerful organization of the knowledge specified through the formulae of the logic language taken into consideration.
In the meantime we recommend appropriate antibiotic cover for dental and other procedures, where there is a risk of bacteriaemia, for 6 months following implant.
In the meantime we will use the term 'incremental learning', which is more familiar in psycholinguistics than 'memoryless learning'.
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