Sentence examples for it was a long while from inspiring English sources

Bruce didn't even know he was in town, and it was a long while before he told him that he was in the service.

It was a long while before he broke from the spell of Fichte's teachings and turned to philosophical realism, which asserts that underlying the world of appearances there is a plurality of things or "reals".

He is understandably reluctant to make this event the only shaping force in his biography – it was a long while after he started doing interviews that he even made it known – but of course it doesn't go away.

In fact, those had been the "never had it so good" years, and a succession of prime ministers – Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Douglas-Home – ensured that it was a long while before the public decided it was indeed time for a change.

The foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was right with his famous 1914 warning: it was a long while before the lamps came back on again: more than three decades of war, slumps and rule by brutal regimes ensued before it could be said that the crisis was over.

While true actually, sadly we lost Marco Simoncelli last year but it was a long while before that.

"It is a long while since he has played.

It's a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn't like me".

It's a long while since the rivers changed course in Liberia, Mexico, Malaya, Vietnam, the Congo, Cuba, Haiti.

He did not want to dwell on that – "It's a long while ago, I'm a lot more compact player" – but he did let slip how things might have already changed under "Boof" Lehmann.

Dating: Now it's a long while since I was looking for love, but one thing that always struck me about online dating sites is how unsubtle they can be.