a while back
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“Since becoming a public figure as a teenager, it’s often the thing I least expect that people most want to talk about,” the former child star wrote in an essay for New York Magazine that echoes what she wrote a while back on her own blog.
From Los Angeles Times
I think I finally locked in on how much we were struggling financially a while back when she started buying cereal in bags.
From Literature
“A while back she started telling stories about a goose whose mother was some kind of wild robot. We all thought she was joking, but I guess not!”
From Literature
I went with my son to the Macedonia game a while back and the atmosphere at Old Trafford was electric.
From BBC
“We called a shop in Austin a while back: ‘Hey, it’s a 17-year-old — think you can do it?’
From Los Angeles Times
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