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The 'flash' group
These nouns are used to indicate how soon or how quickly something happened or will happen.This use is productive: the pattern can be used with noun groups referring to specific amounts of time, for example in five minutes.in due course in minutes in seconds in time in a flash in a jiffy in a tick in a twinkling in a while in the fullness of time
It was all over in a flash, I didn't have time to think.
In time we will be in a position to pay all our debts, including the electricity bill.
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