LONG WAIT collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of long and wait
long
adjective
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/lɒŋ/us
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/lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
wait
uk
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/weɪt/us
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/weɪt/
a period of time when you stay in one place until someone comes, or something happens, or until you can ...
Examples of long wait
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Pharmacological intervention by the clinician resulted in a long walk to pharmacy and often a long wait for the medication.
It is rather a long wait for each pair!
As the eldest daughter, her labor probably was highly valued at home, and she might have expected a long wait for initiation.
Although some authorities will make a contract on request for a selffunder who has been assessed as needing a care-home, there may be a long wait.
Nieuhoff used the long wait to draw the imperial courtyard and the other foreign delegations.
It has meant that companies were generally obliged to hire local tax consultants and endure a long wait for refunds.
In the age of the media, which always yearns for constant and continuous activity, public support for a long wait is difficult to achieve.
Some people are too proud or too independent; others cannot cope with the interminable form-filling and questions, the long _wait_— the whole degrading exercise.
There can also be a long wait for surgery, especially as the disfigurements involved, although horrific, are not life-threatening.
We know that we will have a long wait before we see any political changes in this country.
That seems to me to be a very long wait.
So, it has been a long wait, and the hopes expressed by our peoples have built up throughout this long wait.
What seems like a long wait is but a short time in comparison with the years of training that our armed forces have to undertake.
Unless the driver is to settle down for a long wait, he has to back out because there is no way of getting round.
These farmers have the worry of a long wait before compensation is paid, and at the moment there is no provision for hardship payment.
If he is inviting me to vote with him to abolish expenditure control, he will have a long wait.
This unfortunately meant a long wait for some applicants.
They feel aggrieved at the long wait they are having for what they regard as a just demand.
As has been said, we have had a very long wait.
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