What does in the mean time mean?

in the mean time

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.45 in modern English

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"In the mean time I lay fairly expoſed to the examination of his eyes, and hands, quiet and unreſiſting, […]"
"But in the mean time Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him."

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