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

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1 Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday .
2 That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt .
3 Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved .
4 At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze .
5 Yet the mega-buck manager of Ewood could have had little complaint — Rovers lost to a side who played revivalist football of a kind manager Howard Kendall has waited 22 months to see .
6 Denying the report , Mr Brown said : ‘ These anonymous accusers have waited 15 years to tell these lies .
7 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 .
8 Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it .
9 Non-fundholders have to wait ten weeks in Guildford for an ultra-sound scan ; fund-holders can have one within two weeks .
10 It was the moment Flight Lieutenant Ray Doran from Abingdon had waited 18 months for .
11 Residents had to wait four years to elect their council after receiving that bill .
12 The couple had waited ten years to have a child , only for driving instructor David to fall into a delirium with appendicitis as Helen went into labour .
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