Sentence examples for long while from inspiring English sources

"long while" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a prolonged period of time, as in "I hadn't seen him in a long while."

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But not for a long long while".

For a long while, nothing happened.

For a long while afterward, he floundered.

We said nothing for a long while.

Rachael didn't speak for a long while.

For a long while, almost nothing changed.

That hasn't happened in a long while".

The dot doesn't change, not for a long while.

Robert looked at Dylan a long while before he spoke.

— those signs had been there for a long while".

My father was ill for a long while.

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