after a while
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"I'm going to make a huge difference to Henry's profile. You're going to see him everywhere. You'll probably be bored of him after a while."
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
“The songs just started coming in my head and after a while I decided to try it,” he said in an interview published by American Songwriter at the end of 1997.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
“I also had this growing desire to be a homesteader for real. And then after a while I was just like, ‘I grew a tomato!
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
Yeah, I mean, after a while you conclude it is in some sense antisemitic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
Then after a while he came up with a fiendishly simple idea.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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