The phrase "a long while even" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in informal contexts to emphasize the duration of time, but it is better to use more conventional expressions.
Example: "I haven't seen him in a long while even though we used to be close friends."
Alternatives: "a long time" or "quite a while".
The onlife experience has been tailored for a long while; even the same search engine already returns different results depending on the user's profile.
Still, for the first time in a long while, even we practitioners of the dismal science can afford a bit of optimism.
Growth is outpacing that of America for the first time in a long while; even better, domestic demand seems to be perking up, which will make Europe better able to survive an American downturn should one materialise.Still, there's more than a bit of room for gloom.
It took a long while, even in the privacy of the studio, for Dawson to feel that he could take a picture, though when he did so eventually, he produced perhaps his most indelible work: portraits of the artist as an old, ragingly creative man.
Women have been taking chances and winning for a long while even against tougher odds and lesser opportunities.
He did not think himself a poet for a long while, and even then poems came fitfully when they came at all.
The current haplessness of the G.O.P. across Westchester and New York State may last a long while, but even gloating Democrats should be careful what they wish for.
She's in a bright bikini and long raggedywet hair and I remember how long it had been since I'd seen a girl in a bikini or any girl at all because my wife had left me a long while ago, even then having stopped being a girl in any way you could think of, and went back to living in Lowell, Massachusetts, the place she come from and left just to plague me.
Tchaikovsky wrote his overture more than 50 years after the defeat of Napoleon, & then waited a long while for a performance & even longer for the applauce.
