1. after a time, not long after, it wasn't long before, before very long.
Kīhai anō i roa kau iho, ehara, kua tae mai tōna tuahine ki reira (JPS 1952:189). / It was not long before his sister arrived there.
See also roa kau ake
Synonyms: roa kau ake, roa kau
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