for ever so long

Example Sentences

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She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long."

From Time Magazine Archive

There has not been one of those improvised Balkan kingdoms set up on our stages for ever so long.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been holding on to this information for ever so long.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

He’s away from his own country, you see; and then you and he have chummed it for ever so long in places where he has learnt to depend on you.”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

I have been watching you for ever so long.

From Salome by Marshall, Emma