It is not uncommon to dial up to 50 times before even getting through to the queuing system.
His poll numbers are rotten, and potential opponents are queuing up.
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Mr. DUNCAN CAMPBELL (The Guardian): People were queuing for maize.
Supermarkets have lots of shoppers with lots of stuff in their carts queuing for checkout.
Quite often they can film guerrilla style while you and I are queuing for our bagel.
The alliance has five projects pending approval, and several multinational firms queuing up to join.
These days it is Chang In-Sok and his neighbours who are queuing up for handouts.
And finally, yes, of course there is a Tumblr of photographs of Cypriots queuing at cash machines.
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Today is also cooler making it easier for those queuing in the elements.
But given the difficulties that its weak, poor, ill-governed members face already, it is hard to see others queuing up to join.
Still, hopes are high among the foreign insurers queuing impatiently for admission.
The Highways Agency wants to change its layout to stop queuing traffic in the area.
People wander giddily from rollercoaster to rocket, patiently queuing for the next thrill.
That sort of thing goes down badly with politicians, and they are queuing up to propose fixes.
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In Southampton, Hampshire, there were 1, 700 plots being used and more than 2, 000 people queuing up to take one.
Co-operative banks, the only ones which were open in Cyprus on Saturday, closed after people started queuing to withdraw their money.
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There are several reasons why Britons are queuing up to be tweaked.
In Wales, the outbreak has affected nearly 600 people so far in the south, mid and west of the country, where people have been queuing for free MMR vaccinations.
But his probing into queuing was rebuffed by the airports, which he said were "quite secretive and edgy about the whole issue", offering him limited access to find out about the serial queuing that is air travel.
But it's the second unintentional irony of all this queuing that is even more delicious.
Even rich customers may find that more convenient than queuing to pay their telephone bill.
Just in case all that hardware is not enough reassurance, officials have been queuing up to offer comforting words.
There is plenty of investment too: Brazil's largest car makers are Fiat and Volkswagen, and Spanish banks have been queuing to buy Latin American ones.
Polls will open at 06:30 local time (10:30 GMT) and close 10 hours later, although they will stay open until all those queuing at closing time have voted.
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The desire to take a share of that market means there is no shortage of the great - and the not-so-great - queuing up to publish their thoughts.
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