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      Are they commonly used?
      Submitted by Reborn34 on 21 December, 2009 - 18:37

      Hi Folks,

      Are the senteces below commonly used by English native speakers?If not,what can be used?

      John: She´s beautiful!

      Mark: Beautiful and then some!

      John: It takes a long time!

      Mark: A long time and then some!

      Thanks in Advance!

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      Heath
      Yeah, and I love language like that.
      Submitted on 28 December, 2009 - 08:13
      These sound great to me. Common enough in Australia and New Zealand, and I would assume elsewhere too.
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      GeorginaSZ
      Possibly a bit late to add...
      Submitted on 16 January, 2010 - 11:03

      ...but I think the conversation would more naturally go like this:

       

      John: She´s beautiful!

      Mark:(Yes,) and then some!

      John: It takes a long time!

      Mark: (Yes,) and then some!

       

      Not to be pedantic, but I think this is closer to how the phrase "and then some" is actually used.

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      Heath
      Interesting
      Submitted on 18 January, 2010 - 03:10

      Hmm, interesting.  I actually feel that the original is closer to how I've heard it used. 

      In 'a long time and then some' the first part seems to drag out a bit and as a result I think both sound okay to me (with or without 'a long time' being repeated), but with 'beautiful' I would be much more likely to repeat it than not.

      I feel like a bit of the emphasis is lost when you don't repeat part of the first speaker's utterance.