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The phrase "a very long while ago" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time in the past that feels distant or significant.
Example: "Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a princess who had been waiting for a very long while ago for her true love to arrive."
Alternatives: "a long time ago" or "ages ago."
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In her book "Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age," she makes the case that what we're going through is like what others went through a very long while ago.
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Sometimes, for a very long while..
But that was a long while ago".
While all this happened a very long time ago, litigious lawyers and pusillanimous publishers are still very much a fact of life.
It was a very long time ago".
Waci nihci -- a very long time ago.
It felt like a very long time ago.
Well, 2003 was a very long time ago.
That seems like a very long time ago.
"It seems like a very long time ago," Tucker said.
That all seems like a very long time ago.
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