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Aston Villa waited five games for their first win of the season, before a run of four successive victories took them from the relegation zone up to the top half of the table.

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I would wait for traffic to fade because I was staying in Montebello at the time.

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They had waited four long years to experience a city-wide celebration.

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The chancellor is expected to say in a speech on Tuesday morning that the Budget will focus on "fairness and opportunity" to bring down NHS waiting lists, the national debt and the cost of living.

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Good luck waiting for the GOP to reform Social Security or Medicare before there’s a fiscal crisis.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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