for ever so long

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She: "I've wanted to know you 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

It was very tiresome, my love, but my collar-stud got under the wardrobe, and I couldn't get it out for ever so long.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various

Now I needn't borrow of Rachel for ever so long.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.