a while back

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“You’re not killing all your food, Glenn. You had a nice slab of sour cream apple pie here a while back. Did Aunt Fanny bake it?”

From Literature

‘A while back I saw a robin with some badger hairs in its beak. It came from the east.’

From Literature

The fair was the county fair, which Maya-Jade and Mim had invited him to a while back.

From Literature

“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