Translation for 'quite a while' from English to Polish

quite a while

dość długo

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while

podczas gdy {conj}

chwila {f}

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quite

dość {adv}

dosyć {adv}

It's not worth while.

Nie warto.

That's (quite) enough.

Już wystarczy.

also know as <A.K.A., a.k.a., aka>

znany także jako

American Bankers' Association <A.B.A.>

Amerykańskie Stowarzyszenie {n} Bankowcówbank.

a bit

trochę {adv}

ampere <A>

amper {m} <A>fiz.

acre <a.>

akr {m}geol.wymiary

are <a>

ar {m}geol.wymiary

at a distance

z dala {adv}

by a miracle

cudem {adv}

to die a martyr

umrzeć jako męczennik [dok.]

to nurse a grievance

żywić żal [niedok.]

to post a letter

wysyłać list [niedok.]

wysłać list [dok.]

to bathe a wound

przemyć ranę [dok.]

to take a hint

zrozumieć aluzję [dok.]idiom

• Dravid, who had been knocking at the doors of Indian national cricket team for quite a while with his consistent performance in domestic cricket, received his first national call in October 1994, for the last two matches of the Wills World Series.
• Koop later wrote that because of his son's death he thought, "I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved.
• The composer spent quite a while recuperating. He moved into his own lakeside villa in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia in June 1901.
• The inverse gambler's fallacy described by Ian Hacking is a situation where a gambler entering a room and seeing a person rolling a double six on a pair of dice may erroneously conclude that the person must have been rolling the dice for quite a while, as they would be unlikely to get a double six on their first attempt.
• These rumours have been gossip among London society for quite a while, though seemingly this is the first Lady Windermere has heard about it.

• We'd been playing most of those songs for quite a while, and we were just so happy to be making a record that we didn't really think a whole lot about making the songs better".
• Though the mills were present in the area of Califon for some time prior to its incorporation as a town, it was quite a while before growth became evident in the mid-nineteenth century.
• Kevin McNally also believed they'd be doing the show for quite a while.
• Shibata Katsuie and his forces in the north were bogged down by an Uesugi counterattack in Echizen Province and remained unable to act for quite a while.
• Tobias, oblivious ("It's been quite a while since anyone called me a tyke! ...

• They hadn't really spoken to each other in quite a while".
• Kirkup suggested the republication of some of his early books that had been out of print for quite a while.
• For quite a while 1:32 scale figures were more or less better versions of the army men children play with.
• The book was praised by another reviewer at "Salon", who wrote: "The pure, unfamiliar feelings evoked in 'The Story of the Three Cows' and in the gory 'The Hole in the Sky'—just two of the stories here—persist for quite a while after you've finished reading them".
• The practice of tinning stranded wires to facilitate the process of connecting the wire to a screw terminal, though having been prevalent and considered standard practice for quite a while, has been discouraged by professional electricians, owing to the fact that the solder is likely to creep under the pressure exerted on the tinned wire end by the screw of the terminal, causing the joint to lose tension and hence create a loose contact over time.

• It would be quite a while before Wolverine and Roughouse would cross paths again.
• Meat is generally contained in the larger claws and tails, and stays warm quite a while after being served.
• WebObjects was maintained by Apple for quite a while.
• It was quite a while before applications were updated to remove all 24-bit dependencies, and System 7 provided a way to switch back to 24-bit mode if application incompatibilities were found.
• The exact height of the Zugspitze was a matter of debate for quite a while.