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Generations; Lifetimes. A long time.

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Usage examples (24)
  • I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all...
  • The best book I've read in ages is Mark Gardiner's memoir, Riding Man.
  • And the difference in ages is not necessarily irrelevant to what I'm going to say.
  • The obvious difference in their ages is a bit annoying too.
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  • Some corporations offer "aegis" (sponsorship) to their favorite charities for "ages" (long periods of time).
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