after a while

1. see in a while.

Example Sentences

After a while the bottle started to last eight days, then five.

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Dr Byers said: "After a while I started to get a bit of an itch to study again and I found a Masters programme that I could do part-time and got a scholarship for."

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The orchestral writing, nicely handled by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, can be colorful, though the ominous Wagner tubas become predictable after a while and the electronica for which Mr. Bates is best known is barely discernible.

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When you are working and your experiences are mostly coming through scripted, mostly fictional stuff, after a while, there’s that possibility that you start to feel a little disconnected from actual life and the world.

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"It was fun getting people mad but then I realised after a while it wasn't."

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Related Words

• already 
• belatedly 
• eventually 
• someday 
• sooner or later 
• subsequently 
• ultimately