Example sentences of "had to wait [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) . |
| 2 | The debate dragged on in his absence and he had to wait nearly three hours for the result . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |