Example sentences of "to wait [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q : We may be improving customer service for our end users by faster delivery of ware , but what about the employee shop — we still have to wait 3–4 months sometimes for ware . |
| 2 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 3 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 4 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 5 | Now I 've got to wait another month ’ . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh council official who 's paid for doing nothing will have to wait another month , before a decision is made on his future . |
| 7 | Further , if the recipient does not wish to wait six months he can serve a notice on the sender in which case , if the sender does not come within one month to collect them , they then become an unconditional gift . |
| 8 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 10 | Therefore a firm would have to wait three months before they could determine this charge which is not timely for management purposes . |
| 11 | We used to get exactly the same rebate , the only thing is we have to wait three months for it . |
| 12 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 13 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 14 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 15 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |