Example sentences of "time wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 2 | With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom . |
| 3 | ‘ True , but we need a second Geiger counter and there is n't time to wait for them to send us another one . ’ |
| 4 | And erm you know I know that was one difficulty , that people had a long time to wait for repairs . |
| 5 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 6 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 7 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 8 | The natives roam their rather less than spectacular slopes in huge gangs , effectively blocking off one tract of mountain from the next so that foreigners spend much of their time waiting for detached companions . |
| 9 | Their father was a cabman and spent most of his time waiting for fares outside the Railway Station , the horse-drawn cabs being owned by Ivamy 's of Milford Street . |
| 10 | Whatever the weather they spent most of the time waiting for fares , either at one or other of the Railway Stations or the cab ranks in Fisherton Street or Blue Boar Row . |
| 11 | One of the stated aims of Working for patients is the reduction of length of time waiting for treatment . |
| 12 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |
| 13 | Let's see if the murderer left any trace behind , if he stood here any length of time waiting for his man . ’ |
| 14 | They are broadly consistent with those from earlier studies carried out in other parts of the country except that children in the present study spent more time waiting for attention , in spite of the presence of an unprecedented number of support teachers and other ancillary staff and helpers . |
| 15 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been biding my time waiting for this Ulster call , and was delighted when John Clarke gave me the nod , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Additionally , less electricity is used and the chef wastes no time waiting for the correct temperature to be reached . |
| 18 | Time waits for this Man |
| 19 | He awakens in 1992 and , through a tender friendship with a fatherless young boy and his mother ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) , he finally learns that , while time waits for no man , true love waits forever . |
| 20 | But — ‘ time waits for no man ’ and that goes for woman too — bombarded as she is with ever new vogues , ever changing fads and fashions — constantly confronted with remonstrations to be ‘ with it ’ and keep up to date . |