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"for a very long while" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a long period of time or duration. Here is an example sentence: "I waited for a very long while for the train to arrive, but it finally pulled into the station."
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Trudeau was perhaps the pivotal figure in helping the country past a larger crisis that for a very long while seemed likely to end with its dissolution.
Sometimes, for a very long while..
So this means that all we are left to do is fantasize about fleeing to some exotic destination or better still, we can think about all the annoying people we wish would simply vanish without a trace (at least for a very long while).
It's a long way from anywhere, and it's been that way for a very long while.
"Rumsfeld had better not travel abroad for a very long while; or he could be arrested," gloats Andrew Sullivan.
If Star Trek Beyond was the last Star Trek movie for a very long while, it would be OK.
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And a strategy is now something that the Tories, for the first time in a very long while, appear to have.
The broader goal was to fit even the most modest policy prescription into a larger framework of values, which allowed Democrats to address middle-class Americans for the first time in a very long while.
But for the first time in a very long while, life is pretty good.
There were moments when I felt a kind of wonder that for the first time in a very long while I felt no pressure to meet a man or make one happy.
And once in a very long while, you get a little friendly sparring ― for fun.
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