Sentence examples for was quite a while from inspiring English sources

"It was quite a while later before other police cars and ambulances arrived".

"That was quite a while to sit at home," he said.

"I was born in 1924, which was quite a while before they made the Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem.

Fact is, he said the other day over breakfast at a Bronx diner, his last conversation with the mayor was quite a while back.

It was quite a while before I made it back to the ballroom where, I'm told, a woman had fumed at my bad manners and, lucky for me, chastised my wife for putting up with them.

The Finborough Theatre has bagged the first UK professional outing, though it was performed by the mostly amateur Tower Theatre in Islington in 1989 (yours truly gave the seminal definition of the cameo role of toyboy Lord Romford, and yes, it was quite a while ago, thank you).

You could be quite a while.

She said, "I might be quite a while".

According to most experts, the answer is quite a while.

"It's quite a while since I've been to this big of a party.

It's quite a while since I last read of somebody being "rushed" to hospital.