1·He fought with the urge to smoke one of the cigars he'd given up a while ago.
他克制自己的烟瘾，不去想刚才没吸的那支雪茄。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The postman arrived quite a while ago.
邮递员好一会儿前来过。
3·He left a while ago.
他刚走一会儿。
4·John wrote me a while ago about his new baby.
约翰曾给我写信讲他的新生儿。
5·For many people, summer started quite a while ago.
对许多人来说，夏天才刚开始。
6·A while ago things started looking different to me.
一会以前开我开始看见东西是不同的。
7·A while ago I read an article about focusing on One Thing in life.
前段时间我读到一篇文章就是关于你生命中最重要的东西。
8·Work on this integration has already been started a while ago.
这些集成工作已经开始了一段时间。
9·A while ago, I wrote this post about how everyday is your birthday.
不久之前，我写了这篇关于为何每天都是生日的文章。
10·It was the reason that I started gwt-ext a while ago when ext was LGPL.
这也是在ext还是LGPL的时候，我启动gwt - ext的原因。