Example sentences of "[n mass] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were desert folk waiting for the bus . |
| 2 | To her surprise the small room of the post office was full of people waiting for the evening mail . |
| 3 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 4 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 5 | More generally we read reports of people waiting for their relative who is ‘ presumed dead ’ in some conflict or accident . |
| 6 | Department records show a million people waiting for hospital treatment in England and Wales . |
| 7 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 8 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 9 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 10 | There were seven people waiting for him , the Richardsons , the Hoopers , two parishioners from Snead , and Miss Dunstable from Loxford . |
| 11 | Always be prepared to listen patiently to a guest 's chatter no matter how boring , but develop a technique of being able to detach , oneself politely from a conversation without giving offence , especially if there is work to be done or other people waiting for attention . |
| 12 | People waiting for trains watched in horror as the violence spread towards the Festi-val Hall . |
| 13 | There were 752,422 people waiting for in-patient treatment in March 1979 and 692,946 in March 1991 — a drop of 8 per cent . |
| 14 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 15 | Exit-poll findings and election returns showed that Tyminski had been most successful in the countryside and small towns , where the benefits of the economic reforms had so far been negligible , and among young people waiting for housing and workers concerned about their jobs . |
| 16 | Because we do n't have the sufficient numbers and ca n't keep people waiting for courses we tend to have these do it on a one to one basis which you get , I do n't know . |
| 17 | In Darlington 's ophthalmology department alone Mr Milburn says there are 897 local people waiting for treatment . |
| 18 | The total number of people waiting for treatment is also down , by more than 1,500 to 70,714 . |
| 19 | while he was lying on the massage table after his innings waiting for a doctor , Warner and Palairet called to express sympathy . |