Example sentences of "[verb] wait a year " in BNC.

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1 FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London .
2 CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons .
3 Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't .
4 So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it .
5 Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business .
6 He could have waited a year before he paid the tax but he always paid it immediately .
7 Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes .
8 Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here .
9 As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year .
10 She added : ‘ Even if you have to wait a year , it 's a long time if you 're worried about it . ’
11 ( The trouble with that was that so many All Blacks and Springboks and older British Internationals were at the University he would be better advised to wait a year or two . )
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