average wait

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandwait

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average
adjective
uk
/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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wait
noun[S]
uk
/weɪt/us
/weɪt/
a period of time when you stay in one place until someone comes, or something happens, or until you can ...
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(Definition ofaverageandwaitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theaveragewaitis about six to nine months.
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So theaveragewaitis not just a question of a few months.
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Theaveragewaitrose from 5.1 weeks in 1999 to six weeks last year.
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At other centres theaveragewaitis about three months.
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Theaveragewaitfor a cataract operation is 203 days.
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Waiting times have improved: theaveragewaitis down from nine months to four months.
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This compares with anaveragewaitin the west midlands of some 20 weeks.
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Theaveragewaitfor females is two to four weeks.
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We are told that theaveragewaitis about 10 weeks.
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Over the past six years, theaveragewaitfor treatment has halved.
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Theaveragewaitis two and a half years.
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I suggested that the average rate up to the present has been three years; but what is more important is, what is theaveragewaitto be from now on?
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Theaveragewaitfor a driving test is generally the same whether for a car or a motor cycle.
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Today nobody waits two years and theaveragewaitfor those not needing emergency care and who are seen at once is four months.
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A better measure would be theaveragewaitper patient, which would avoid the clinical distortions resulting from long waiters' becoming more clinically urgent than critical patients.
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Good progress was made in reducing that long interval: before the end of 1977, theaveragewaitwas back to 12 weeks.
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Theaveragewaitis anything from two and a half to four and a half years, against a background of rising homelessness.
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Theaveragewait, which in 1988 was more than nine months, has gone down to under five months.
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I was concerned to learn that for young people in particular theaveragewaitfor their first out-patient appointment to see a psychiatrist is 6.6 weeks.
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Theaveragewaitfor trial, as far as one can tell from the figures, is 45 weeks, or just under a year.
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