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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a while to watch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a duration of time that is needed or taken to observe something.
Example: "It took a while to watch the entire series, but it was worth it."
Alternatives: "some time to view" or "a bit of time to see".
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We sort of quit science for a while to watch the machine.
During those years we went to movies, football games, baseball games, parties and once in a while to watch the trotters at the Thistledown Racetrack.
Walking to work from his house on Mercer Street, Albert Einstein, leonine and sockless, would stop for a while to watch the action.
But it's kind of refreshing, after getting worn down by a lot of campaign rhetoric that starts to sound the same after a while, to watch door-to-door, retail politics again, most of it conducted by non-professionals.
Ms. Hastings has marvelous muscular control and a soulful mien, and it was fascinating, for a while, to watch her arch, stretch and contort her body into poses that morphed from heroic to voluptuous to abject.
My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry.
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People watch for a while to see what the world is really like.
"It took me a while to actually watch it and hear myself scream.
Take a while to sit and watch for what sells and what doesn't out of the items you're interested in.
After a while, try to watch the movie in the foreign language with no subtitles.
Once in a while you get to watch an equal match between fighters whose different strengths add suspense to the ordeal.
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