This was how things worked not very long ago.
就在不久前发生了这样的事。
Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
不久以前，人们还无法想象一种病毒能使众多国家封闭，而安全网被证明是如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性。
Kangaroos' tails are not very long.
袋鼠的尾巴不是很长。
It was not very long before he became the best clerk in the store.
没过多久他就成了这家商店里最好的店员。
Twenty minutes. Not very long.
二十分钟，时间不长。
"Not very long," answered the Mexican.
“要不了多久”墨西哥人回答道。
而且这段时间也不是很长。
Not very long, just five minutes or so.
不是很久，只不过五分钟左右。
The problem was solved not very long ago.
这个问题不久前被解决了。
My kind of fame not very long, but long enough.
我的名气不会很久，但是也足够久了。
"Not very long. " they answered in unison.
“不是太长，”他们众口一声。
B: Not very long. I arrived here on the dot.
对不起，我迟到了。你到这儿很长时间了吗。
That's not very long, if you think how old the world is.
那不是很长，如果你认为世界是多么古老。
We think this will take one or two hours, but not very long.
我们估计这可能需要一到两个小时的时间，但不会很长。
Although not very long, but she has her own characteristics and charm.
虽然不是很长，但她有自己的特点和魅力。
Not very long, half an hour twice a week with David Holmes, my stunt double.
不是非常长，半个小时和大卫福尔摩斯的一个星期两次，我的杂技加倍。
Not very long ago, children were often forced to write with their right hands.
不久前，孩子们常常被迫使用右手写字。
The man in this picture is holding a mastodon tooth that was found not very long ago.
照片中的人拿著一颗不久前出土的乳齿象牙齿。
The writer of the former must have written the latter, and that too not very long thereafter .
笔者前必须有书面后者，而且也不会很长，其后。
How long can you spend on job search sites before fatigue sets in? For most of us, not very long.
如果一直泡在求职网站上，多长时间以后你会开始觉得疲倦？对于我们当中的大多数人来说，不会很久。
Not very long ago a man named Chris Henshilwood stumbled upon one possible answer to this question.
不久前，一个名为克里斯-罕什伍德的男子偶然地遇到这个问题的一个可能的答案。
Unfortunately, that's not the case: one day, perhaps not very long from now, the situation will spin out of our control.
事实不会这么简单，有一天气候的情形也许会让我们措手不及。
If the men of England feel that England is no longer a man's country-for apparently it was so not very long ago-then it isn't.
——如果英国的男人自己觉得英国已经不再是男人的国家了——不久之前英国显然就不是了——那它就确实不是了。
Time flies, a twinkling of an eye on the 4 years have passed, perhaps time is not very long, but what happened is as vibrant as the dream.
时间过得很快，一转眼就4年过去了，也许时间并不是很长，但是发生的事却是沧海桑田像梦一样。
Time flies, a twinkling of an eye on the 4 years have passed, perhaps time is not very long, but what happened is as vibrant as the dream.
时间过得很快，一转眼就4年过去了，也许时间并不是很长，但是发生的事却是沧海桑田像梦一样。
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