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I am reading a passage, and got curious.

The situation is ...
A boy comes back from school, and he finds out that the key is missing.
He can't enter the house, so await his father.
He waits for two hours, but it seems quite long for him because it was freezing outside....

Here,
the passage says...
"Ages later, he finally heard the car of his father"

1) He just waited for two hours. Ages seems to me... a quite long time.
Can I say ages for two hours?
2) Ages later... is this often used phrase?

Thanks.
Yun

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