Example sentences of "have to wait [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 2 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 3 | POLICE are likely to have to wait almost two months before they can interview Keith Pringle , the man at the centre of the Darlington siege . |
| 4 | Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) . |
| 5 | The debate dragged on in his absence and he had to wait nearly three hours for the result . |
| 6 | The Scottish club , trailing 1–0 after the first leg of this second round tie , had to wait only 13 minutes before levelling the scores . |
| 7 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
| 8 | Right , yesterday on the way to scho , on the way to the bus we had to wait about five minutes I was slowly going see |
| 9 | I had to wait about ten minutes while he was interviewing someone in connection with a current case , and then I was taken to his room . |
| 10 | A patch of moonlight means I have to wait nearly five minutes for the clouds to cover the moon again before I can climb the tree . |