How To Use Queue In A Sentence
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I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
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There's usually a queue outside this pizzeria right opposite Cibreo - the reason being the excellent, echt Neapolitan pizzas made with the finest ingredients.
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Private clinics providing thinly veiled opportunities for queue-jumping have expanded.
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Your finances are in tatters, your blood pressure is rising and the queue for the bank cashiers' desks is never-ending.
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Many queued for up to 30 minutes for a chance to add their signature.
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The last space shuttle accident has left a queue for the launching pad.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shopping by mail order lets you beat the queues.
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The group reaches the elevator queue to find a crowd of roughly two hundred students milling about restlessly.
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At some stage in the next few weeks I'd better buy a batch of cards and start working my way through the address book and getting them into the post, with the overseas people first in the queue.
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There was a long queue at the post office.
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Often conference goers are anxious to get early places in the meal queue, but although we had gone overtime for lunch, Nigel captivated the room.
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First in the queue were two Japanese students.
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Susan Warren and her son Mark, 15, from Cheadle Hulme, joined the queue at 5.50 am, kitted out with deckchairs, waterproofs and a flask.
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Because it is hidden in a valley, the first time you see this inverted roller coaster ride properly is when you are about to join the queue.
The Sun
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The result is time saved and an end to the dangerous traffic queues that occur at tollbooths.
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One American, who obviously didn't want to join the queues, was fined 10,000 korunas when he tried driving across one of the closed bridges.
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Standing in queues is not easy for us old fogeys with worn-out joints.
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They imposed an economic blockade on the city, forcing people to queue for hours in the heat to enter or leave, and requiring them to show identification in English.
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With form filled in, you then have to manhandle your purchases onto a huge trolley, queue, pay for them, put them in your car, drive them home and assemble them yourself.
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It is great value with exclusive queue-jumping privileges at some attractions.
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Having queued in order to buy a paper, some old duffer just walks in front of me in order to get served.
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A glum opening gala, transport and ticket errors mean thousands queue for hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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IEEE standard for MANs (Metropolitan Area Networks). Formerly known as QPSX (Queued Packet and Synchronous Exchange), now known as DQDB (Distributed Queue Dual Bus). It was approved in 1990.
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There were gloomy predictions that the weather would deter buyers, but on the day a lengthy queue had formed an hour before the doors opened.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had been decided to introduce a single queue system, so that customers were seen in order of coming into the bank, rather than taking pot luck in separate queues.
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It managed to avoid the kind of blockbusting queues that greeted the launch of the iPhone in 2007 by allowing customers to pre-order the iPad online from March 12, offering the choice of home delivery or in-store collection.
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Long lines of blood donors queued up outside area hospitals.
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No queues of mourners lined the halls to say a final farewell to the man hailed as the workers' hero as his body lay in state at the House of Parliament yesterday.
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There were scenes of chaos as hundreds queued to take buses to other destinations in France.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost all ambulance trusts are failing to reach dying patients fast enough as long queues at accident and emergency departments cause delays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wigs, initially full-bottomed but neater as the 18th century wore on, were worn by officers, and soldiers had their hair pomaded, powdered, and drawn together at the back in a ‘club’ or queue.
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Society women quickly took note and queued up to have their portraits painted in similar poses.
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It wasn't a Tuesday, the real day for devotees, so one could walk inside after a fairly short wait in a queue.
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Most people are right-handed so they will opt for queues on the right-hand side.
Times, Sunday Times
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At Holy Cross High, the school was overwhelmed by a large number of parents standing in a long queue with their children waiting to be admitted.
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Sighing, the man walked the four paces that the queue had advanced.
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In some cases, entrails of slaughtered animals are served back to others ‘stuck in the queue’ at slaughterhouses.
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The exit ramp from the motorway took me down to a set of lights, sadly however it took everyone else down too and a queue of vehicles was waiting to get through the lights.
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The protocol is called FAST , standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) .
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So every morning people had to line up in a queue for their turn.
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LP is telling you that LPD is not running on the local server, which it must connect to in order to queue the request for the remote printer.
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People queued down the street to buy copies of the court transcripts.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a long queue at the post office.
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And even if there is a line, it's always fun to watch - or even participate in - another favourite Italian sport: queue-jumping.
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This covers anything from a failure to clear passenger queues to the time it takes for luggage to clear baggage reclaim.
The Sun
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The Admiral remembers all too clearly returning from long Cold War submarine patrols, and having to queue on a rainswept jetty to use a phone.
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NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask: untilDate: inMode: dequeue: + 116 20 com. apple.
Discussions: Message List - root
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The queues for the bus would have filled dozens of double-deckers before I even got near to one, so I dug out the free map I'd picked up from the tube staff last week and headed out west.
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The wait queue is a list of processes blocking on the semaphore.
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Prices are too high, prize money too low, the food is inedible and the queues too long.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, the large bulk shipping carriers are queued up for weeks waiting to load basic ore and other items on the way to China.
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The winning provider receives the message from the request queue.
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Teams are teaching commuters to form queues at bus stops.
Times, Sunday Times
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A small number in the queue do have an NHS dentist, but the wait is too long to see them.
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Sample outputs: qdisc netem 8001: root limit 1000 delay 200. 0ms Sent 175545 bytes 540 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) rate 0bit 0pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
NixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog
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I'm convinced that the back-breaking queues for the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland are entirely driven by that opening trompe l'oieul flyover of London in miniature.
Boing Boing
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Because the threads execute identical code, they should have similar dynamic priority adjustments and execute in a round-robin fashion from the same run-queues.
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Over 1,000 children and adults were entertained by magicians and Hogwarts characters while they queued to get their hands on a first edition copy of the book.
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Politicians last night dismissed suggestions that a new service giving MPs special access to a London medical centre was queue-jumping at the taxpayer's expense.
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Major corporations want a part of him and are queueing up for him to front their campaigns, promotions and advertisements.
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To queue is glorious," reads a new catchphrase festooned across Beijing as part of the government's frantic push to improve social etiquette for the Olympics.
Archive 2008-08-10
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Long queues formed again outside many branches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long queues formed in many areas and a number of voters said that they waited all night to cast ballots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both parks are fun, especially if you invest a little extra in queue-jump passes.
The Sun
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Many are afraid that if they lose their job, they fall prey to all of the ravaging forces in Zimbabwean society — they join the 70-80 percent of the country that's unemployed, waiting in bank queues, trying to somehow scrounge up food.
Life in Mugabe-ville
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Bear this in mind the next time you queue for an overpriced cup of skinny latte.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parents accuse one another of queue-jumping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Posters have been put up in response to complaints of queue-jumping, jostling and barging in the rush to claim the best seats.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was mainly ladies who queued to get tickets, housewives, and Sel had a knack with them.
MR STARLIGHT
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The service routine looks up the protocol type inside the received frame and queues it appropriately for later processing.
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To what window are you standing in a queue?
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Cynics will say that was actually the queue for an appointment.
The Sun
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The men are dressed in pulu, or colored drilling, have their hair mainly done in a great queue which they adorn with bright rings and twist about their heads.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Real-time FIFOs are queues that can be read from and written to by Linux processes.
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So, did 400 million citizens and voters queue in blistering heat of 40-plus to soothe the fretful nerves of the market?
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If rugby were to get nervous, then there would be a queue for the firing squad.
Times, Sunday Times
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This applies to all queues except those at passport control, where the slowest is always for the e-passport gate.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a healthy queue of unhealthy people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dawn to dusk, each hour, Patricio would guide twenty pilgrims to the cave while the others queued up, seeking shade under every leafless cactus and scrubby tree near the chain.
The Calling
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He did a quick recce and said that there was nobody queueing, and argued, correctly, that most of the passengers appeared to be either watching a film or working on their laptops.
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A glum opening gala, transport and ticket errors mean thousands queue for hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he has already identified a number of problems, including the need to reduce queues and improve the appearance of post offices.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a unique opportunity, and why a successful trade deal should be at the front of the diplomatic queue for both governments.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll have to join the queue .
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He was the man who sometimes got ahead of me in the Covent Garden gallery queue and took over what I thought of as my seat on the centre gangway of the front row.
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Where did we queue to buy the commemorative crown pieces, the silver five-bobs that suddenly made sense of the term "half-crown", of which they were the vanished ancestors?
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack
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By 7 o'clock a long queue had formed outside the cinema.
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The prince refused to jump the queue for treatment at the local hospital.
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There are a growing number of countries queueing up for membership.
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The resulting budget deficit forced the removal of massive fuel subsidies, leading the petrol queues before prices at the pump doubled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do they jump the queue at the job centre?
The Sun
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Long queues at the checkouts at midnight, and not much more than a dozen spaces left in the car park.
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Being at the front of the queue for the new model may have given you geeky street cred, but owning a new gadget before anyone else isn't always the best option
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We queued for half an hour waiting for a free space in the car park.
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I had to join a queue for the toilets.
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The more people jump the queue, the more the queuer will earn.
Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping | David Mitchell
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He was sitting in a traffic queue on York's eastern outskirts when the familiar sound of sirens wafted through the air.
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Established stars queued up to cover songs from the Mitchell songbook.
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DA - "So get this there was a queue - at MY ATM - well the one near my house - this morning - i had to queue for fecks sake - for well over a minute and this ould cow turns around and smiles at me with a poxy 20 yoyo note in her hand
Politics.ie
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People dashed about collecting them and queued for her to sign them when she came down.
Times, Sunday Times
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On arrival you should report to reception where you will be directed to the queue for the appropriate discipline - porcelain, furniture, pictures, jewellery, silver, clocks and watches, arms and militaria, books or miscellaneous.
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Actual prommers - ie, those who queue for cheap standing tickets - tend to come from London and are buying as eagerly as ever.
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Queues tail back across arid fields, waiting their turn for this sophisticated drug which could transform the region - yet not even the water with which to take it can be provided, and everyone must bring a sip of their own.
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Most of the soldiers in the queue were grizzled captains and majors.
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First, Jurassic Park has all the problems of any amusement park-ride maintenance, queue control, transportation, food handling, living accommodations, trash disposal, security.
Jurassic Park
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The queues were epic, no one smiled and the place felt bedraggled and neglected.
Times, Sunday Times
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The table in the centre of the shop positively groans with the weight of olives and at weekends especially customers queue to relieve it of its burden.
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While waiting in queue to buy their tickets, they were mobbed by local men, who manhandled them, pushed them into a corner, pressed against them and felt them up.
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Fine-grained tasks in conventional thread pools can also generate excessive contention for the task queue shared among all workers.
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When he gets caught on the wrong side of the ruck, there's a pretty long queue to give him a kick.
Times, Sunday Times
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A print server can rip, store and queue hundreds of megabytes of print jobs without slowing down the network.
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No, it's not the frustrating obstacle course of shoe removal, sweeps and patdowns, oppressive crowds, interminable queues, perspiratory delays and airplane food (or lack of it) that makes every trip a challenge.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Fear of Flying: Ruminating on Air Travel
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I was waiting in the bus queue when two men pushed in in front of me.
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And when drivers queue to allow a family of geese to amble across, it is one of those incongruous scenes which can only make you smile.
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The members of what was once the middle class queue up at soup kitchens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Submitting a job to the job spooler queue and to the at job scheduler simultaneously requires a compound command.
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He jumped up, pulled his trousers over his pyjamas and was the first in the queue.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.
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A middle-aged man bit off part of a teenager's ear and then sank his teeth into his lip during a queue-jumping argument in a supermarket.
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You conceivably can use work queues for jobs other than bottom-half processing, however.
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They arrived several hours early for the concert and staked out a place at the front of the queue.
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You are ready to slalom down an awesome ski slope, with an adrenaline-pumping playlist queued up on your MP3 player.
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Put simply, you cannot have one member of staff in a busy shop, a long queue of disgruntles customers and still expect the member of staff to query and check each and every transaction on the self service tills because, in the case of yesterday, that would mean he would be effectively manning three tills, which is not possible.
Norfolk Blogger
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Queues of traffic stretched back for miles following the accident as the fire service extinguished the blaze and police removed the wrecked cars.
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I was a bit leathered, and saw this huge queue, and in my state, decided that queuing is for people with victim mentality, and just walked straight to the front, as if I was supposed to.
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Moreover, the bank loans were unsecured, which puts lenders in the same category as suppliers - near the back of the queue.
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Now, every time he hears the van, he howls like a baby until he is let out, runs across the road and queues up.
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This week is enrolment week, and when I went into work today the familiar queues were all around the students' association.
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The show on the second floor of the multi-storeyed Customs House, attracted hundreds of excited buyers who stood in serpentine queues clutching bulging purses.
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Once you create the worker thread, you can queue work in a fashion similar to how work is queued with the default worker thread.
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Behind him was a long queue of angry motorists pushing him forwards.
Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
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It's ridiculous that we should have to queue, when we have already got our tickets.
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And judging from the crowds gathered around the trophy and the queues looping around the Brunel Plaza, the tour looks to be on target for success.
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We might hate queue jumpers, but we also detest hypocrites and bludgers.
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Pupils queued up to pay to chuck wet sponges at their teachers and all the money raised went to Comic Relief.
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NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask: untilDate: inMode: dequeue: + 137 10 com. apple.
Discussions: Message List - root
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Some arriving planes waited two hours to get to a gate while departing aircraft queued up to be de-iced.
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By observing the relative positions of the queuer and cutter, the scientists tried to found out whether the cutter targeted a friend or not, and the length of the time the queuer had waited.
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Her head of braids is tied back into a thick queue de cheval.
French Word-A-Day:
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The ‘office’ was a dour, airless place, with bulletproof glass screens protecting the two women who were processing the queue.
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Despite numerous complaints from the whole of the queue, the cashier did nothing.
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Upon the group's return a queue of vehicles had lined up to go across the river.
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We had to queue and order our meal, standing at a counter, whilst scanning the menu.
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However, from time to time in the short term, the aggregate queues can become congested, as traffic and QoS are shuffled within the network.
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There are a growing number of countries queueing up for membership.
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Unemployed and facing the dole queue, this enterprising young man decided to set up his own business.
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TIRUMALA: The newly introduced 'photometric' system using facial identification technology is a blessing for the ordinary devotees waiting in Sarvadarshan queue lines.
The Hindu - Front Page
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There used to be a queue of volunteers to caretake the property for three months at a time.
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People who get to the head of the queue and then take ages to find their purse/wallet - surely you?
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Thousands of people queued to pay tribute at the opera house in Donetsk where his body was displayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The food queues have become a daily occurrence across the country.
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Prends le cochon par la queue, lui dit l'empereur, et tu verras qu'il se taira.
French Conversation and Composition
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Some arriving planes waited two hours to get to a gate while departing aircraft queued up to be de-iced.
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Now, by stealth and with no political flag-waving, this may be the end of the rich queue-jumping over the poor.
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Do we simply accept our place at the back of the queue for funding, bracing ourselves for leaner times?
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Nothing could have been more heart-warming than the sight of people standing patiently in a serpentine queue at the auditorium to buy the commemorative stamp!
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Because the threads execute identical code, they should have similar dynamic priority adjustments and execute in a round-robin fashion from the same run-queues.
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You have to queue for hours to obtain official stamps before booking into a hotel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Excited women and children queued up for their autographs and photographs as lensmen from the media clicked away endlessly.
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The long queues outside principals' offices in many township schools made it difficult for the schools to concentrate on teaching as the teachers had to attend to the queues.
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You'd better add power relaxing: catnapping through phone holds, deep breathing during tv commercials and meditating in checkout queues.
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The purpose of the simulation is to estimate mean vehicle queue lengths and delays for various vehicle densities and train frequencies.
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Unemployed and facing the dole queue, this enterprising young man decided to set up his own business.
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Afternoons are a nightmare for commuters standing in serpentine queues at the rear entrance of the City Railway Station.
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Sure, you can steal the photocopying toner from work and queue-jump at the bakers, but the Dark One is fickle with his acolytes.
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With this in mind, and perhaps 18 local ears cocked in close attendance, when I reached the head of the Golden Fry queue I heard myself round off the word 'supper' in a ridiculous thrumming roll.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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And I know I'll be in queue to see it twice. shelton p lindsay
Veronica Mars Movie Could Still Happen, Arrested Development Perhaps Not | /Film
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I recall as a teenager the indignation I felt at being queue-jumped by old bags who decided that I didn't matter.
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Expect to queue, but patience is rewarded at this sanuki udon restaurant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leaving work and consigning yourself to the dole queue is obviously risky.
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There was chaos at airports as queues formed after the introduction of restrictions on hand luggage.
Times, Sunday Times
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They may not face the dreaded inner-city bureau queue but the less frequent presentation of serious enquiries makes training slower.
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He had a bad razor rash and a bit of a pot belly and so I was stood in the queue trying to copy his gait and sticking my belly out when he turned round and caught me looking at him!
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Each class must have a queuing discipline to determine how packets are enqueued and dequeued.
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She went to the railway station and queued alongside passengers on the westbound platform.
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There were gloomy predictions that the weather would deter buyers, but on the day a lengthy queue had formed an hour before the doors opened.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labour MPs recount story after story of constituents complaining that recent arrivals jump the housing queue.
Times, Sunday Times
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A huge crowd queued excitedly for the opportunity to slap some foam on their favourite (or unfavourite) teacher.
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To remedy the situation, I wrote a web script which bypasses the email queue and places greetings from Readers directly into my Inbox.
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Keeping them off the dole queue by giving them proper training is an economic as well as a political priority.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glorious weather made it a memorable day with long queues for ice-cream and cold drinks.
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Amongst those in the queue is a tall woman with a shock of black hair.
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Ours were the only two white faces in the queue for some distance.
Times, Sunday Times
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This paper analyzes service efficiency for garage entrances with different toll mode and gives the calculation method for service desks number of garage with queueing theory based on a case.
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On the other you had police squads, sniffer dogs and queues to get past metal detectors.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, we will continue to queue and to offer our deferent thanks.
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Queues had formed early at one polling station in the Sydney beachside suburb of Clovelly, when polls opened under brilliant sunny skies in Australia's biggest city.
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It is also important that any channel not intended to support administration of the queue manager have a low-privileged user ID in the MCAUSER attribute.
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Que la premiere fois qu'elle luy fut presentee elle le baisa à ce visage de derriere au dessoubs d'vne grande queuë: qu'elle l'y a baisé par trois fois, & qu'il auoit aussi ce visage faict comme le museau d'vn bouc. —
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
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The barista was busy serving the long queue of caffeine addicts and chatting about the previous night's antics.
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Following Ryan's suggestion and using base64 encoded images may also allow you to dequeue by aborting the XHR's.
Fullasagoog.com full roast blend
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When the queue length for each output port exceeds a threshold value, the CS originates the cell inhibiting signal to all IXBs.
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To inherit dominant status a subordinate must outlive all those above her in the queue.
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The woman had a hard-nosed look to her, sporting a warrior's queue of green hair.
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The fast way to open the print queue is to double-click on the Printer symbol in the System tray (located at the bottom right).
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There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
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Trying to exit the airfield after the show ended resulted in large queues of vehicles all trying to get out of one gate.
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Shoppers may also face long queues at collection points.
The Sun
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If you want tickets you'll have to join the queue.
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He stands patiently in the queue before hopping on board and taking his favourite back seat spot.
The Sun
