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"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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