Example sentences of "had to wait another [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop . |
| 2 | Becky laughed but had to wait another five days before she actually saw the young officer again . |
| 3 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 4 | But the Conservative conversion , at Disraeli 's prompting , to the cause of reform , had to wait another fifteen years . |
| 5 | But there was nothing that I or anyone else could do about it ; she , and we , had to wait another six months before she was finally gathered . |