while back
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A while back, for instance, Friday Ashlie decided Monday Ashlie would make banana leaf-wrapped fish.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
A while back there was the tap on James Anderson's shoulder, and just recently there was Ben Stokes' ill-fated night out.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Writer Greg Stolze posted a while back about “some professor” who “put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying ‘Hi!
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
And most glaringly, while back in 2002 when Iain Duncan Smith visited Easterhouse, around a quarter of recipients of incapacity benefits were for mental or behavioural reasons; today, it's close to half.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
We all had Cokes in the living room while Margot talked a little about Berlin, about the various business things she was doing while back in the U.S.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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