How do you use its been a while since?

If you mean it’s been some time since a single sighting, then since I saw you is correct. For example, “It’s been a while since I saw you (standing there at the bus stop).” If you have been seeing the person regularly or the person is familiar, you would say “It’s been a while since I’ve seen you.”

How do you write its been a while?

1 Answer

1. Used as an adverb, it’s written as just one word: awhile.
2. Used as a noun, it’s written as two words separated by a space: a while.

Is it correct to say it’s been?

“It’s” is short form or contraction for both “it is” and “it has”. Therefore both sentences are correct.

Has been long since?

If you say that something has long since happened, you mean that it happened a long time ago. Even though her parents have long since died, she still talks about them in the present tense.

How long is been a while?

What is this? Even saying that something has lasted for “months” or is going to be completed in “months” can now be focused in and mean 2 months exactly. Or if you state you’ve been living in your home for “years,” we can pinpoint the length of time to be 3 years of time spent living in your humble abode.

Which is correct it’s been awhile or it’s been a while?

Awhile is an adverb that means “for a while,” whereas “while” is a noun meaning “a period of time.” Generally, the two-word form “a while” should be used when following a preposition (“I will read for a while”), or with the words ago or back (“a while ago/back”).

How long is a while ago?

The study has discovered “a while” estimates a length of 4 months whereas “a little while” would be a little less at 3 months’ time. Going a little further, “a while back” would indicate the potential of occurring up to 8 months in the past. What is this?

How long it’s been meaning?

How long has it been since (something happened)? This is a way to ask about how much time has passed between a past event and now.

Is it been a while or been awhile?

How do you write it’s been a long time?

Basically, “It’s a long time” is “It is a long time” and present tense as far as I’m concerned; and “It’s been a long time is “it has been a long time” and past tense. Roniy: you need to use past tense or future. If it’s been a long time since you were at school, that was in the past.

What is a long while?

(considerable period of time)

Is been a while correct?

When something hasn’t happened for a long time, we say that it’s been a while. Something that happened a long time ago might have happened a while ago. If something happens after a period of time, you say it happened after a while.