some time
See also: sometime
English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]some time (not comparable)
- Alternative form of sometime
- 1933, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong (motion picture), spoken by Lady Lou (Mae West):
- Why don't you come up some time and see me?
Noun
[edit]- A period of some length.
- 1863 July 29, Edmund Hope Verney, “Letters”, in Allan Pritchard, editor, Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65[1], Vancouver: UBC Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 157–158:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (period of some length): some time yet
Translations
[edit]a period of some length
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