a (good) long while

noun

: a long time
I haven't seen her for a (good) long while.

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Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe. Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 Starks has been a part of a perennial winner for a long while. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025 The warnings have been emerging for a long while that, at some stage, Newcastle will need to cash in on one of their star players to finance a further strengthening of the squad. Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025 In fact, an IG showed up to grill McGee and was poised to bench him for a long while, when evidence began to come together incriminating LaRoche in a recent heist pulled off using U.S. Navy tech. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for a (good) long while

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“A (good) long while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20%28good%29%20long%20while. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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