Sentence examples for which means waiting from inspiring English sources

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I recently saw an Egyptian movie, "Hena Maysara," which means "Waiting for Better Times".

This 1987 book, which the Marmont's onetime co-owner Raymond Sarlot helped write, has barely been updated — which means waiting until the brief afterword for even the most feeble name-dropping about Johnny Depp.

There is something called "one-lane courtesy," which means waiting for the bowler in the lane to either side of you to finish bowling before you step up to the line.

You can still choose to go standby without charge, which means waiting until everyone else has boarded to find out if there are seats on the flight you want.

Belatedly marking to market for foreign exchange, we downgrade 2016 earnings per share estimates by 4% which means waiting to 2017 until we see a meaningful earnings bounce-back, assuming foreign exchange headwinds don't get in the way again.

Although he knows the Americans insist on everything being done and dusted by the end of 2013 (so they can start making plans), he now argues that his successor should be the one to sign it, which means waiting till after April's presidential election.

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A friend of mine, who had badgered his college for months to secure her as his tutor, sat up all night for a week desperately trying to write an essay fit for her to read at his first tutorial, for which he arrived 30 minutes late, because at the last moment he didn't dare face her without a stiff drink (which meant waiting another half-hour for the pubs to open).

And this despite a strict no-reservations policy for any table smaller than six, which means waits sometimes stretch to a half-hour.

Which largely means waiting for Quebec, the OPEC of maple syrup.

Patients who are willing to undergo surgery are put on the waiting list, which means a waiting time of approximately 3 months.

Now only the clerks sell single stamps, which could mean waiting -- and waiting and waiting -- in a slow-moving line.

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