IN A WHILE Definition & Meaning

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, after a while . After a period of time, usually a moderately short time. For example, Go ahead, I'll be along in a while , or After a while we turned off the television and went for a walk . [c. 1300]

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“But every once in a while ... it happens at first base. There’s some weird spots the first baseman has to be.”

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Her MS hasn’t relapsed in a while, but she has limited sensation in her hands, feet and ankles, and says she sometimes has trouble with her short-term memory.

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Schultz spoke about it the other day in a conversation at the Sunset Marquis, part of a lengthy promotional trek he said was keeping him away from his wife and two young children longer than he’d been away in a while.

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Tagging along with Lopez to the city’s hottest nightclubs was exciting, she added, “same as it would be to any girl in her mid-20s who hadn’t been out in a while.”

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“I haven’t seen him in a while,” he told them.

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