Meanwhile, a 62-year-old motorist collapsed and died while waiting in a queue for petrol in south east Wales.

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We're not rushing to beat that light, we're not stressed out waiting in a queue that's caused purely and simply by that red light.

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But today her application sits in a queue waiting for passage of the Small Business Jobs Act currently before the Senate.

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In theory, there is a long queue of coal-fired power stations waiting to be built in America.

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Passengers at London's Heathrow and other congested airports often sit in a long queue of planes waiting near the runway to depart.

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There is a small queue in the waiting room as she and her dental nurse inside the surgery give one of her young patients a filling.

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In Naples last November the show was so popular that a man who was supposed to be under house arrest was caught waiting in the queue.

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If you visit the Staverton surgery in North West London any Saturday you will see there is a queue waiting for the doors to open at 10am.

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