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》

John wrote me a while ago about his new baby.

约翰曾给我写信讲他的新生儿。

youdao

For many people, summer started quite a while ago.

对许多人来说，夏天才刚开始。

youdao

"General McChrystal and the NATO investigators should bear this fact in mind that regardless of the support to the Taliban, those killed were non-combatants and their killing was a violation of the tactical order General McChrystal issued a few while ago in order to prevent such incidents,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

And so, he was in kind of in this very minimum security and he finally just croaked a while ago.

所以就对他严加看管,前一阵子他终于死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Okay, it's from 1987, so it's from quite a while ago, but.

这是1987年上映的，所以这是部老电影。

在伦敦拍摄的电影 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On Iran, a while ago you said there is time and space to pursue diplomacy.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

McCain, for his part, left a while ago for Virginia, another red state where the polls are close.

NPR: Anatomy Of A Campaign Rally: John McCain

Much of this is the fruit of changes that occurred a while ago.

ECONOMIST: Restructuring corporate Germany