The phrase "a queue at the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a line of people waiting for something at a specific location, such as a store, event, or service.
Example: "There was a long queue at the entrance of the concert venue, as fans eagerly awaited to get inside."
Alternatives: "a line at the" or "a wait at the".
A few weeks later, Ally stood behind her in a queue at the supermarket.
"But with all the people I have invited this year there might be a queue at the gate".
She might have said this in a queue at the supermarket, but would we have gone on to have a twenty-minute conversation about the weirdness of twins?
If and when he goes there will be a queue at the door of a coach who speaks good English and is fond of the UK, London especially.
That was wrong: the place was heaving, with a queue at the entrance, and by 8pm there must have been a good 600 people inside.
An American who wanted to fly commercially, or do anything else for which he needed to identify himself, would end up in a queue at the Department of Motor Vehicles.The idea was to make life harder for would-be terrorists.
I was in a queue at a checkout and the guy serving me said his 13-year-old daughter was reading it.
I was once standing in a queue at Schiphol Airport when I dropped the bulky English Sunday newspaper I was holding under my arm.
However, in the morning peak period at my local station, there is frequently a lengthy queue at the ticket office, a broken ticket machine, and a switched-off Permit to Travel machine.
"Your crazy daughter has run off to Bologna with a man!" These were the days when contact with home involved a weekly queue at the post office followed by an expensive four-minute chat.
AT 10 o'clock on a mid-week morning, there's already a goodly queue at the McDonald 'sin the Cobham service station.
