A few said it had been a while since they last looked at their favourites.

有些人称，他们已经好久没有读过自己喜欢的书了。

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Thanks to Lu, I realized that it had been a while since I updated everyone here.

谢谢小卢同学的提醒，想想也是该更新一下这里了。

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It had been a while that I was hoping that this negotiation would turn out well.

关于我的转会谈判已经进行了一段时间，我曾希望这一谈判取得好的结果。

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It's been a while since I've been doing that because I haven't had as much free time as I would have liked.

我已经很久没有播报了。因为我最近都没有太多的空余时间。

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He actually was anxious to get back because it had been a while since he had been there.

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It had been a while since Rousselot had read any of his work.

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When the markets were opened up, the liquidity in the market was higher than it had been in a while.

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