The longer queues formed outside branches of Laiki, which is being wound up.

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Queues formed outside its door and its communal benches were reassuringly crammed with Japanese diners eager to get a taste of home.

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In a city full of mobile phones - now rendered near-useless by network congestion - long queues formed at payphones.

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Queues formed at cash machines in the Australian city of Sydney after they malfunctioned and began giving out large sums of money.

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Queues formed for the exhibition which was also attended by the artist.

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Reuters yesterday reported that queues formed at Tehran banks and some currency exchange offices shut their doors as Iranians scrambled to buy dollars to protect their savings.

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Queues formed early outside schools used as polling stations.

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Although investors could apply for shares online, long queues still formed outside banks for the 3.6 million copies of share application and prospectus materials.

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Correspondents say the confusion in the city has been made worse by the collapse of mobile phone networks, and long queues have formed for the payphones still working.

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Huge queues have formed at state food-distribution centres.

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Queues of worried investors have formed at banks associated with him in the US, the Caribbean and Latin America.

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And when Li's major Internet venture, China portal Tom.com, listed in March, eager subscribers formed some of the longest queues Hong Kong had ever seen.

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