Example sentences of "to wait [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
6 | Last week a Durham City vehicle took 25 minutes to answer an emergency call in Bishop Auckland , and recently a woman in Upper Teesdale had to wait over an hour for an ambulance . |