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Значение идиомы while back
[while back] {adv.} At a time several weeks or months in the past.- Used with “a”.
We had a good rain a while back, but we need morenow.
Grandfather is well now, but a while back he was in thehospital for three weeks.
See: CRACK THE WHIP.
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