by Nikolai Teleshov.
"Несколько времени" (some amount of time) was by an order of magnitude more popular back then than it is now. According to Russian National corpus, the expression was less and less used though the 19th century, and after 1950-60 it is only occasionally used by some people in their speech and writing.
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yerna-t Shady_arc, 5 Nunembeṛ 2014