程なく[ほどなく] (hodonaku)

社長しゃちょうは 程ほどなくいらっしゃいます

The president will come shortly.

しかし、程なく病死する。

However, he died of sickness soon.

程なく用明天皇が崩御した。

Shortly after, Emperor Yomei passed away.

この 建物たてものは 程ほどなく 完工かんこうだ。

This building is near completion.

それから程なく兼通は死去した。

Before long, Kanemichi died.

院の子を懐妊、程なく父が死去。

She becomes pregnant with the child of the Cloistered Emperor, and soon after her father dies.

その後大坂の自邸で程なく病死。

Then Toshiie died in his own residence in Osaka before long.

だが、苦労がたたったため、程なく死去した。

But she died shortly after that due to the hardships.

斎宮下向から程なく、桐壺帝が重態に陥り崩御した。

Soon after the high priestess had left, Emperor Kiritsubo fell into a critical condition, and died.

程なく弾四朗は密告者がお菊であったことを突き止めた。

Soon Danshiro found out that the betrayer was Okiku.

翌寛仁元年（1017）4月に出家し、程なく42歳で没した。

He became a Japanese priest in April 1017, and died soon afterward at the age of 42.