for a while

Perhaps the best we can hope for in some of these agencies is that they'll flounder about for a while without any serious results.

"It's been a thing now which I have said for a while, I am not a young lad anymore," he added.

"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism," it added.

I was with a friend of mine, and we’ve known each other for a while, and she was telling me how good one of the episodes were.

She’s someone I think I could get into for a while because she’s such an oddball but is seriously good at what she does, just her people skills are lacking.