Some applicants are using tricks to get to the front of the queue.

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Taxi driver Saif Jassim is finally at the front of the queue at this gas station in south Baghdad.

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Russia wanted to get to the front of the queue for future contracts.

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In Harare, thousands waited all weekend in the searing sun, but still failed to reach the front of the queue.

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Like a determined shopper, elbows out, at the Boxing Day sales, Mr Street seized his chance to get to the front of the queue.

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Right at the front of the queue is Munar Kumar Yadav.

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The agency doesn't make travelers go to the end of the regular screening line, however, but instead slips them into the front of the regular queue.

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Unencumbered by a stroller, I could have zipped right up to the front of the line as a single rider and escaped the mindless idling in a queue of strangers that seemed to know best.

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While there are suggestions based on algorithms, we saw packs of movies like "Queue the Bromance" pushed to the front.

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