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some time en · ADV
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of sometime.
Why don't you come up some time and see me?
1933, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong (motion picture), spoken by Lady Lou (Mae West):The Auburn Knights of Honor will present the mock exposé of the initiatory ceremonies, given last year by the Lewiston lodge with such rich success, with new and improved details, in their hall, some time next month.
1881 December 27, “City and County”, in Lewiston Evening Journal, 5 p.m. edition, volume XXI, Lewiston, Me., →OCLC, page [3], column 1:
some time en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A period of some length.
An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.
1957 August 14, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589:The clergyman, Mr Reeves, was at Shang-hae for some time, and has stayed at the Rectory in 1857 when you came to talk to him about Chinese matters.
1863 July 29, Edmund Hope Verney, “Letters”, in Allan Pritchard, editor, Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65, Vancouver: UBC Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 157–158:I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Synonyms
some time yet (period of some length)
Translations (4)
pl jakiś czas (a period of some length) · de geraume Zeit (a period of some length) · fi jonkin aikaa (a period of some length) · ru како́е-то вре́мя (a period of some length)