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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a while to happen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something will take a certain amount of time before it occurs.
Example: "The changes we discussed may take a while to happen, so we need to be patient."
Alternatives: "some time to occur" or "a bit of time to take place".
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"It was a good move – but, unfortunately, it took a while to happen".
"I do think it's early days, I do think it's going to take a while to happen.
It was something that took a while to happen.
Even if this takes quite a while to happen, you've got a decent chance at a lucid dream.
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Time elapses both inside and outside of them: they took a good while to happen, and they take a good while to tell.
And because this is a closed system, it may take a while to find out what is really happening.
It just took a while to make it happen.
Sometimes it takes a while to have enough happen to you in your life.
He added: "It was a lot of remembering, and sometimes it took a while to remember what happened and how, but it got done.
But the fact that ozone depletion was a "global effect" and that any action would take many years to kick in made it more urgent, says Rowland, of the University of California, Irvine: "I thought that the possible consequences were severe enough that one should not sit back and watch this for a while to see what happens".
He didn't have a biopsy, but opted to wait for a while to see what happened.
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