some time

See also: sometime

English

some time (not comparable)

Alternative form of sometime
- 1933, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, spoken by Lady Lou (Mae West):
  Why don't you come up some time and see me?

some time (uncountable)

A period of some length.
- 1863 July 29, Verney, Edmund Hope, “Letters”, in Allan Pritchard, editor, Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65‎, Vancouver: UBC Press, published 1996, →ISBN, OCLC 906721216, 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 222716698:
  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.

a period of some length

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