The child had apparently been born shortly before the plane took off from Newark.

He was baptised on 30 November 1569, so born shortly before that date.

He fathered a daughter as the result of a casual affair; she was born shortly before his own death.

She was born shortly before her father's incarceration as an Ultra.

Others were born here shortly after their parents arrived, or came under the sponsorship of relatives.

There will be a child born shortly to one whom you greatly love.

The couple had one son, who was born shortly after their wedding.

My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital.

Their first child, a daughter, was born shortly after his Congressional victory.

He told me he had been born shortly after the war.