Quite a while
The crossword clue "Quite a while" is answered by YEARS, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YEARS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YEARS answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for YEARS
Every other clue in this collection answered by YEARS, most used first.
- A long time - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Decade parts - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Long time - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
- Decade divisions - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Orbital periods - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Sentence units - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Time periods - used 11 times, most recently in 1992
- Ages - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Millennium makeup - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Trips around the sun - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- A dog's age - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Age measurement - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Calendar periods - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Months and months - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Twelve-month periods - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Not quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
- In a while - LATER, used 36 times
- After a while - LATER, used 25 times
- Gives for a while - LENDS, used 21 times
- Quite a lot - OFTEN, used 20 times
- In a little while - LATER, used 19 times
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