Example sentences of "[adv] have to wait [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third .
2 Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times .
3 Because the conductor always had to wait until such time as the queue was diminished quite a bit and hi his tramcar was full so that the next tramcar come along er coming along , whatever number , was to be d the same thing happening again .
4 We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction .
5 Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery .
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