Example sentences of "have to wait [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned .
2 But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery .
3 Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government .
4 He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said .
5 These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery .
6 I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action .
7 But we 'll have to wait five days until Sunday before we can meet Nancy on London Bridge .
8 Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ?
9 The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat .
10 BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market .
11 And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day .
12 But Coun Shephard , who is chairman of the district 's environmental health committee , said he had spoken to two families who were told only last month they would have to wait 50 weeks .
13 So I thought well I do n't have to wait three weeks for mine so next time I do n't feel great I 'm gon na call in and take a couple of days off .
14 ready on by a computer , do you have to wait three days ?
15 for the cheque you 're gon na have to wait three days to clear in it ? in your bank
16 Therefore a firm would have to wait three months before they could determine this charge which is not timely for management purposes .
17 A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder .
18 He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes .
19 Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ?
20 The rescue service , which describes its staff as the ‘ new knights of the road , ’ boasts women alone should only have to wait 20 minutes .
21 Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay .
22 It has been well received and customers are having to wait two hours for a table on Saturday evenings .
23 Worse still , the unique Gynaecological Oncology Unit at Bart 's was full — she was going to have to wait two weeks for a bed there .
24 I had to wait two hours before seeing him as he was in conference with a producer .
25 That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt .
26 Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier .
27 Of the other three , Port Erin had to wait 58 years for its lifeboat station , being formed only in 1882 , while those suggested for Jurby and Laxey never materialised .
28 At the hospital , I had to wait thirty minutes before getting attention .
29 I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again .
30 His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success .
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