Example sentences of "afford to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can afford to wait that long . |
| 2 | Not that they can afford to wait for long . |
| 3 | But the generals could not afford to wait , and started work well before they could get any useful political guidance . |
| 4 | And as things stood in 1558 , she could still afford to wait ; for the Protestants , whatever their renewed fervour within Scotland , still had no support from outside , and without such support their chances of success remained remote . |
| 5 | With a specialty like his , he could afford to wait until a really worthwhile chance came up . |
| 6 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 7 | However , as I have said , some things take longer and they could not afford to wait . |
| 8 | However , by carefully working our way up in the quality of cars we drive we can usually afford to wait until we can pay cash in the price range that suits us . |
| 9 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't afford to wait — not with the story of the London kidnap splashed all over the early editions of Figaro . |
| 11 | We can not afford to wait longer for the answers to our questions . ’ |
| 12 | Clough 's offer to date falls short of Ferguson 's valuation but the longer Forest struggle the longer the United chief can afford to wait . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to make rash judgements after just one game but I ca n't afford to wait . |
| 14 | Can I afford to wait for a young child to discover such procedures ? |
| 15 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |
| 16 | Micro Focus ca n't afford to wait until 1997 , and is making its marker and sounding out the market now . |
| 17 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 18 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 19 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 20 | Luke Travis 's idea of three minutes was far from precise , she thought , and she could n't really afford to wait much longer . |
| 21 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 22 | ‘ I can afford to wait . |
| 23 | ‘ The problems are tremendous and time is short ; we ca n't afford to wait while politicians figure out what to do . ’ |
| 24 | This unexpected development was accompanied by a White House statement which said that " the nation can no longer afford to wait for Congress to act " on proposed legislation to allow inter-state banking . |
| 25 | We can not afford to wait t a few months before the next election . |
| 26 | He could afford to wait for them now , if he wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't afford to wait and let the northern army join with Siward . |
| 28 | After the main course but before the pudding , her parents had decided that they could not afford to wait forever for the sunshine to break through . |
| 29 | ‘ It may well be that the original kidnappers could n't afford to wait so long . |
| 30 | I 'm sixty years of age and while I 'm prepared to plant the woods for my grandson , I 'd like to see some growth myself I ca n't afford to wait forty years . " |