Example sentences of "[vb -s] wait a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 2 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 3 | FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London . |
| 4 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 5 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 6 | ‘ But Paul says wait a bit , no hurry , and it 's his decision . ’ |
| 7 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 8 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 9 | Naturally , losing an order is a serious matter , but with job production it normally means waiting a short period before being asked to quote again for a different job , whereas with flow production it might be two years before the model is changed and the opportunity is provided to quote again ( by which time the buyer might have forgotten the existence of the salesperson ! ) . |