AUDIENCE: Is it something that hasn't been used for a while?
An old-fashioned Indian hanging machine had been used for a while, but a problem had arisen with noise.
Many prostheses have been used for a while and then discontinued.
The F.D.A.'s action was part of an effort to formally approve drugs that have been used for a while without thorough regulatory review.
Often a shoulder freezes up because it hasn't been used for a while because of pain, injury, surgery, or illness.
The battery bounce test, popularized in online videos, shows that fully charged batteries bounce very little when dropped, while those that have been used for a while bounce higher.
While video glitz has been used for a while to dress up pinball games, Revenge From Mars is the first to incorporate video images into the action, allowing the player to interact with virtual, as well as physical, targets.
"I can confirm that Nick has had a bath in there," says a spokesman when I call, "but he moved offices some time ago, and it hadn't been used for a while".
The term "soap opera" has been used for a while now to refer to nearly any series that charts its story line over multiple episodes, from "NYPD Blue" to "The Sopranos," but "Brothers & Sisters" is so aggressively true to the form that it shows just how diluted the phrase has become.
"Of course, rubber bullets, tear gas, and Tasers have been used for a while — on nonviolent anti-war protests at the dawn of the Iraq invasion, not to mention Occupy — but the U.S. media has often chosen to ignore these images.
● ● Finding (84) 9 The sand bag could be used for a while.
