Example sentences of "[num] [noun] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the journey , not least an eight hour wait for a connection in Los Angeles , was not , I have to admit , so memorable or pleasing . |
| 2 | ‘ It was difficult 'cos we 'd walk into our dressing room and there would be 30 cans waiting for us every single night , ’ confesses Ashley . |
| 3 | At the Royal Brompton alone there are 113 patients waiting for heart-lung transplants — transplants that do not always work . |
| 4 | It means Aylesbury Vale Health Authority will now be able to comply will the new patients charter , which says a 2 year wait for treatment should be the maximum . |
| 5 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 6 | They will now face a six week wait for the results of the tests . |
| 7 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 8 | The intention was to assist drivers on the front few rows , who can spend up to 90 seconds waiting for the rest of the grid to form . |
| 9 | Hereford 's 5 month wait for an away win in the league came to an end at Spotland . |
| 10 | There were 752,422 people waiting for in-patient treatment in March 1979 and 692,946 in March 1991 — a drop of 8 per cent . |
| 11 | They had the most horrendous ten days waiting for the tests , only to find Richard had n't got it . |
| 12 | I admired my daughter-in-law so much the day I saw her stand a full five minutes waiting for her little boy who was watching a worm disappearing through a hole in the earth . |
| 13 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 14 | the times I 've tried for up to five minutes waiting for switchboard to answer |
| 15 | We had ten bobbies in five pairs waiting for them coming out . |
| 16 | I sit on this platform fifteen minutes waiting for a train . |
| 17 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 18 | I 've only been twelve months waiting for a |
| 19 | After being hired ‘ I sat here for five weeks waiting for a telephone call , ’ says Terry Chellew , the boss of IDG 's British magazines . |
| 20 | Sitting in this seamy room one evening waiting for the meeting to begin , I was startled by my friend exclaiming , ‘ My God , there 's a man coming up the stairs . ’ |
| 21 | I might have suffered — seventeen years waiting for promotion , for some of them were made sergeants very soon . |
| 22 | Even at windswept Thornaby where facilities can best be described as minimal , I checked the charter during my 15 minute wait for a connection . |
| 23 | The computer craze started by the Nintendo character reached fever pitch as more than 15,000 people waited for up to three hours to get into London 's Earls Court . |
| 24 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 25 | ‘ Preston , I was two hours waiting for you in that porch . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've sat here two days waiting for you to come home , waiting to have a conversation with you . |
| 27 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 28 | Robin 's mother Dorothy says , the four month wait for their trial in a Turkish prison has been a huge mental strain . |
| 29 | Department records show a million people waiting for hospital treatment in England and Wales . |
| 30 | The runaway Prince Leonce and his veminous , thieving philosphical sparring partner Valerio , after pawning their clothes for food , loaf about in the forest in long johns swapping paradoxes like two men waiting for Godot . |