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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ages to arrive" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to a situation where something seems to take a very long time or an inordinate amount of time to happen. For example: It felt like it took ages to arrive, but the package finally arrived at my doorstep.
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The melody for the chorus, which for some reason feels like it takes ages to arrive, mixed with Barlow's vocal, makes the whole thing so jaunty and sprightly that the sense of prevailing danger is sucked out and replaced by the image of Barlow having a dad rant about Facebook privacy.
And as usual, research like this take ages to arrive in consumer hands.
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Age was adjusted for prematurity by calculating the estimated date of birth from the assessment of gestational age to arrive at a birth date based on an expected 40 weeks' gestation.
Hence Doha had limped along for ages, failing to arrive at any substantial compromises or successes.
Those who beheld Jesus bathed in the glory of the resurrection believed the long-dreamt golden age about to arrive.
"There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that," he says in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, though there are signs of the burdens of old age starting to arrive.
INITIAL public offerings (IPOs) of internet start-ups are like buses: you wait ages for one to arrive, then several turn up at once.
The Golden Age had yet to arrive.
But back then, it took ages for the bed to arrive, she waited and waited and then went to see the cabinet-maker and told him he must hurry up because she would die before he finished it – and that she would haunt him if he didn't do it quickly.
At what age to we arrive at self-acceptance?
When she collapsed in the street in Slavutych, aged 19, the ambulance failed to arrive in time to save her.
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