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in a while



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, after a while . After a period of time, usually a moderately short time. For example, Go ahead, I'll be along in a while , or After a while we turned off the television and went for a walk . [c. 1300]
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Once in a while, Michelle texts me about a show of her own or one of Ravi’s, or sends me a photo from that first event in 2021.

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Reading about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have made him more appreciative of peace at home, he said, adding, “I feel so lucky that I don’t have to endure the smell of gunpowder or crawl into a bunker once in a while, like previous generations did.”

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But “every once in a while,” the veteran quarterback said, the team might ask for his opinion about a prospect.

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I will tell you one piece of advice I gave Karoline at the beginning is that she’s got a great smile and she should use it and it is OK to lighten up every once in a while.

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But once in a while, they're going to get a revelation.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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