a while back

“A while back she started telling stories about a goose whose mother was some kind of wild robot. We all thought she was joking, but I guess not!”

I went with my son to the Macedonia game a while back and the atmosphere at Old Trafford was electric.

“We called a shop in Austin a while back: ‘Hey, it’s a 17-year-old — think you can do it?’

A while back, he had written out a list of goals in a diary: cleaning up his act, going back to school and planned to get married.

Referring to side-by-side photos of Kardashian from a while back and from the recent Bezos-Sánchez wedding in Venice, Betteridge said she “looks dramatically different from a few years ago, and whether you see it as glow-up or glam makeover, there’s no denying she’s created a bold new look for herself.”