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English
Adverb
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
some time (uncountable)
- 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, 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.
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a period of some length
- Chinese:
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- Finnish: jonkin aikaa
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- German: geraume Zeit
- Polish: jakiś czas
- Russian: како́е-то вре́мя n (kakóje-to vrémja)
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