Sentence examples for been queueing for from inspiring English sources

Arriving at the ground a couple of hours or so before the start of play, you walk past spectators who, at Lord's, may have been queueing for hours.

A nearly two-hour fight broke out on the southern outskirts of Calais among about 100 Eritreans and some 30 Afghans who had been queueing for food handouts.

This week many of the 3.5 million ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, and Slovakia, have been queueing for Hungarian passports under new citizenship laws.

Roughly 1.3 million people signed a petition for a recall vote – far more than the 200,000 required by law, but 600,000 of the signatures have already been rejected by the CNE, and people have been queueing for hours to validate the rest of the signatures by having their fingerprints scanned.

People have been queuing for up to 3 hours to give blood in Paris.

Apparently, people have been queuing for 11 days to sit on the stands to watch people go in.

In Delhi, the national capital, where the shortage is most acute, consumers have been queuing for hours at government-run outlets to buy onions at subsidised prices.

Last night first aiders were drafted in at St Pancras where thousands of passengers had been queuing for hours after Eurostar services were cancelled.

"It's the government's fault," said Mitthe Thapa Magar, a taxi driver who had been queuing for petrol for five days.

Lightsabre-wielding fans had been queuing for the midnight screenings of Star Wars VI: The Force Awakens in the Entertainment Quarter at Sydney's Moore Park since 9pm.

He had already been queuing for an hour at Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle, but was nowhere near the front.