Example sentences of "wait a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it 's all right by you , I 'll wait a few minutes until the storm subsides , ’ Vitor said , as thunder boomed again . |
| 2 | Why do n't you wait a few hours and see if he gets what you need from Blagg ? ’ |
| 3 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
| 4 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
| 5 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 6 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 7 | I can wait a few days . ’ |
| 8 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
| 9 | Could you wait a few weeks until I 'm sure ? ’ |
| 10 | But David Townsend , director of Croydon SSD , has complained to Herbert Laming , SSI chief inspector , that inspectors should wait a few months for the reforms to bed down . |
| 11 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 12 | Wait a few minutes , ’ or ‘ Wait three years , ’ whatever is appropriate . |
| 13 | Beryl said , ‘ Just wait a few minutes , Adam , till we 've got this cleared up . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Spray paint that over and wait a few minutes . |
| 15 | write , it 's now I have to ache , I , I wait a few minutes and then I , go on again when me hands had a rest |
| 16 | Wait a few hours . |
| 17 | Again , wait a few moments before walking towards the dog , assuming it does stay , so as not to cause it to bound off . |
| 18 | ‘ Wait a few moments yet . |
| 19 | Some make preliminary enquiries then wait a few years but many feel it is so desperately important to know where they came from and who they belonged to that they go ahead . |
| 20 | Apply it over the boards with a roller , wait a few seconds , then wipe it up with a clean cloth . |
| 21 | ‘ Just wait a few months and we will go as tourists . ’ |
| 22 | I fully understand the considerable cross-party support for what was said in the ten-minute Bill , but it is important that we wait a few months to see where the European Court comes down . |
| 23 | Wait a few days till dumbo gets bored and strolls in the streets . |
| 24 | After waiting a few minutes she collected the pictures from the slot outside the booth , put them in her bag without looking at them and hurried home . |
| 25 | ‘ Shall I tell him to wait a few minutes , Inspector ? |
| 26 | She was obliged to wait a few minutes while a Land Rover was being manoeuvred into the empty space beside her and then , with a start , she saw the driver . |
| 27 | Oh I see , yes , you have to wait a few minutes . |
| 28 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 29 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 30 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |