Example sentences of "to wait a [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side .
2 Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week .
3 I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me .
4 Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all .
5 Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins .
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