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in a while

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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“That was his thing. He liked to get out and go to a game once in a while,” Louis Prevost told the Chicago Tribune of his brother, the future pope.

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For the first time in a while, they could start to see light at the end of the pitching tunnel.

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“I felt like every once in a while I would reach back and had a little bit extra,” Kershaw said of his velocity.

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That’s the Doors, it’s not just like, “Oh it comes up every once in a while on your music feed at the gym or something.”

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Every one in a while, a match comes along that will live in the memory long past the final whistle.

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