what is the opposite phase of 'long long time ago'?
at the start of the kid story, I usually say ' long long time ago', but this morning I wanted to make up a story supposed to happen in the future. And I got stuck.
Should it be 'long long time after', or ' long long time later', ' long long time from now'....?
Maybe you can say "In the near future or distant future".
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"Far into the future,"
"In the distant future,"
"Long from now,"
Those are the first three choices that came to my mind.
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"many, many years from now", "in the distant future", "in the far distant future", "a long, long time from now", etc.
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There are a number of ways you could express a future thought... though, it depends on context, the most appropriate way to express that thought.
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In medical school we are loosely taught that U.S. Americans are a present tense,here in the moment culture of people as a generalization. I am a Latina so we have tense usage very differently based on oral traditions of history and so this is a conceptual phrase. Some might say 'A long,long time, far off into the future. ' some might say Someday or a long time from now people will all be blue. Far into the future, x will happen. It is not like any Cyrillic or romance language. One day I will be rich. References to tine conceptually is what it is.
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