Example sentences of "wait a few [noun pl] " 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 .
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