We enjoyed your company and hope you will return ere long.

No, be not anxious; he is traveling on business and will return ere long.

Of course I hope to return long before that time, and resume the post.

Diane returned to town not long after that trying to find out why Nikki went to see her.

The soldiers had finished their appointed task and returned to the boats long before the second party.

He returned to Paris not long before his premature death.

They all would return not long after first light.

"And then how long before you return with the part?"

He returned to Arnstadt long after was expected and much to the dismay of the council.

He went out and wandered in the direction of the lake, returning not long before sunset.