Example sentences of "a long queue " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 2 | There was a long queue ; before me an Asian couple stood with a trolley piled ludicrously with shabby luggage . |
| 3 | A long queue shaped like a cobra waits ‘ over there ’ . |
| 4 | The pressure of a long queue was the most frequent cause for stress mentioned in the West Midlands survey of volunteers . |
| 5 | Mayor Houde made his business headquarters at the Mount Royal , and when I enquired the reason for a long queue of nondescript citizens waiting before a desk on the mezzanine floor , I was told that it was ‘ pay-off ’ day for contributors to the mayor 's ‘ charity fund ’ for their ‘ protection ’ . |
| 6 | There was a long queue and the price was already slashed but this smartly dressed lady wanted more off . |
| 7 | Courtesy of these NME shows , you too could join a long queue for a booth in which Cliff or Dusty or Adam Faith sold kisses for two bob a time . |
| 8 | It looks therefore as if Russia will have to join the back of a long queue before its turn comes again . |
| 9 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |
| 10 | Taxis waited in a long queue to ferry them away , while others struggled up the stairs with cases or bags , determined to make their way by other means . |
| 11 | There the quotidian became immensely and unembarrassedly real : ‘ At the fish and chip shop a long queue . |
| 12 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 13 | A long queue of customers greeted the shop 's opening on 4 May 1970 . |
| 14 | A long queue of foot passengers waited to get on the overnight boat from Southampton , but the sailors helped the pretty young woman , travelling alone with her daughter , to the front , and up the swaying gangway . |
| 15 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 16 | That was nothing to my thoughts two minutes later when I joined the back of a long queue for a bus that already had people standing ! |
| 17 | In front of him stretched a long queue of women each clutching a copy of As the Crow Flies . |
| 18 | It says a long queue is forming . |
| 19 | If they succeed in finding a cure not only will the spines be restored to the hedgehogs but there will almost certainly a long queue of humans eager to try it out . |
| 20 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |