be poised + infinitive(+ глагол • Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves --- CAMPOBASSO, Italy—Your favorite Italian-origin fusilli and macaroni are poised to disappear from U.S. supermarket shelves.
Italy’s biggest pasta exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January. The combined tariffs are among the steepest faced by any product targeted by the Trump administration.wsj.comART Vancouver)
a short while(Within a short while it becomes hard to understand how we could have functioned without the knowledge gained from it. – Вскоре, становится трудно понять, как мы могли существовать без знания, полученного из неё (книги).NickMick)
a while ago(Ago обычно применяется для обозначения действий в прошедшем времени: It stopped raining a while ago. Конечно, по-русски возможно сказать "вскоре (после чего-л.) произошло нечто", но при таком соотношении действий ago уже не применяется. ART Vancouver)