"not long" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"How long have you been in the service?\" ―\"Not long.\"",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, long."
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          "word": "not long for"
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          "ref": "1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 138:",
          "text": "\"[…] You ought to try one of these biscuits. They're good.\"\n\"I've not long had breakfast,\" Morgan told him.",
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          "ref": "2018 July 31, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, Vintage, →ISBN, page 60:",
          "text": "So I'd be going along to Elam Church sometimes and they had to go to a spring to get their water for the church; the spring was less'n a quarter of a mile from the church, good spring of water. And I'd be there, maybe not long got there, or I'd be there a pretty good while before I'd see her.",
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        "Fairly recently."
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        "(UK) Fairly recently."
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  "word": "not long"
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  "pos": "adv",
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      "word": "not long for"
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          "ref": "1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 138:",
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          "text": "So I'd be going along to Elam Church sometimes and they had to go to a spring to get their water for the church; the spring was less'n a quarter of a mile from the church, good spring of water. And I'd be there, maybe not long got there, or I'd be there a pretty good while before I'd see her.",
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        "Fairly recently."
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        "(UK) Fairly recently."
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