Example sentences of "a wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a wait in the Second Act . ’ |
| 2 | There will then be a wait while the various samples are examined under the microscope , and finally the results will be given by the doctor , and treatment prescribed as necessary . |
| 3 | It will cost you two stamps , and I 'm afraid , a wait of up to a month , as our volunteers deal with the huge response we get . |
| 4 | After a wait in the queue Tom at last managed to get served . |
| 5 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 6 | The 24-year-old faces a wait of six weeks for a work permit and Hitchcock will use that time to advance his claims on the No 1 jersey . |
| 7 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 8 | Here is the terminus of the railway from Dingwall and Inverness , the pier where the large MacBrayne 's boats call and short cruises depart and , most important for the local economy , the ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island of Skye : a very popular voyage of five minutes only but often achieved after a wait of hours in a queue . |
| 9 | After a wait of an hour or two he saw a big male stalking on the forest edge . |
| 10 | After an eight-day voyage to Iceland and a wait for good weather , the party made the four-day trip from Reykjavik to Kangerdlugssuaq , a fjord leading towards their objective . |
| 11 | Thus , a microprogram may have a wait for a store read to be completed , or the result from a test function may not be available for the micro-instruction sequence until several micro-instruction cycles after the function was initiated . |
| 12 | There was a wait and another voice and another wait . |
| 13 | For timing purposes it is best to assume a wait of half a revolution , bearing in mind that this is usually an overestimate . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't imagine going on performing without you , ’ Henry said after a wait . |
| 15 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
| 16 | Further advances in the knowledge of prognostic factors should help to identify subgroups of ( asymptomatic ) patients with a more prolonged clinical course , in whom a wait and see policy seems adequate . |
| 17 | It may be a bit of a wait . ’ |
| 18 | Then a wait . |
| 19 | It may have been dropped during the run-in to opening in 1692 , to spare the first-night audience too long a wait for the music they had paid to hear in this long-expected opera ; for it can perfectly well be done without . |
| 20 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 21 | Between each excitation change the processor executes a WAIT instruction , in which the delay value is counted down to zero ; high delay values produce a long delay time and therefore a low stepping rate . |
| 22 | After a wait Toby came along the upstairs corridor and sent Pickerage down with an encouraging pat on the shoulder . |
| 23 | inputRoutines — Two low-level routines allowing the choice of an option and user action to end a wait period by a key press . |
| 24 | When SDLP leader John Hume met the IRA in 1985 he was taken to a house — widely believed to have been in the Republic — and after a wait of 28 hours was introduced to a man who said he was an IRA spokesman . |
| 25 | The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait . |
| 26 | But earlier at Lechlade Gloucestershire police adopted a wait and see policy . |
| 27 | He 'll have a bit of a wait though … probably about two hundred years . |
| 28 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |