a while back

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.”

The State Department Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Darren Beattie said it most plainly in a post on X a while back: “Competent white men must be put in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”