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The phrase "a seeming eternity" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a period of time that feels very long, often in a subjective or emotional context. Example: "Waiting for the results felt like a seeming eternity, as I anxiously paced back and forth."
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Many of them have been out of work for longer than six months, a seeming eternity.
It's that special moment, or many moments, or several days (a seeming eternity, really) when, as one man said, pointing to his laminated-looking children in the back of the family van, "they're bored and we're driving".
I often spend a seeming eternity racked by indecision, striding back and forth between the potato and sweet potato display (a slightly grand expression for a pile of root veg, maybe, but in itself presenting its own problem of choice); and the chilled cabinet where the ungenerous tubs of pre-grated cheddar and (presumably tinned) tuna are kept.
Waiting a seeming eternity to pass through a metal detector in order to listen to a cover band and purchase a $14 beer is ridiculous.
IT is not exactly news that independent productions can take a seeming eternity.
After a seeming eternity of ads and obfuscation, ripostes and rivalry, Americans re-elected Barack Obama to the presidency.
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Thirty seconds can transform a match, yet 90 minutes can seem an eternity.
After what seemed an eternity, we found a dirt road.
Minutes have a way of seeming like an eternity, the official said.
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