while back
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I went with my son to the Macedonia game a while back and the atmosphere at Old Trafford was electric.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025
“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 • Aug. 20, 2025
Armstrong issued a statement over the weekend, saying she wanted to "clear the air about something that happened a while back".
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024
I lost the conversation’s thread a while back, so I ask him, “Do you travel much?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2024
She passed a while back, but it’s in her honor that I’d like to donate twenty-five thousand dollars to the Hope Springs Downtown Revitalization Fund.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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