Example sentences of "have to wait [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to wait just a little while , Monsieur Gravellier , ’ one had said . |
| 3 | This is hard , since on a busy day you will sometimes have to wait quite a while for the waiter to take your order or for the arrival of the food . |
| 4 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 5 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 7 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |