Sentence examples for down the queue from inspiring English sources

"The transvestites used to walk up and down the queue and pick people out and lots of people used to be turned away," says Koffman, who felt obliged to wear a different outfit every week.

However, waving notes around is likely to see you drop down the queue.

Not all no-reservations restaurants have bar areas and some do not work their way down the queue to find out group sizes.

British Airways and Virgin have 40 on order between them, but for once they will be glad they are way down the queue; by the time they take delivery, they hope the teething problems will have been ironed out.

Hypo Real's new credit line will presumably have shunted unsecured creditors down the queue too.So far only the Irish solution has avoided this adverse effect, by indemnifying most creditors and allowing shareholders to reap the subsequent gains.

Doormen at the Majestic would come down the queue and turn away anyone they thought might upset the interior decorum, including a friend I was with one night who at most had had two pints of beer.

Children hawked bananas up and down the queues.

So to cut down the queues, airports are now introducing what could be described as procedures to optimise the workflow, based on the Smart Security System developed by IATA.

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport uses a similar system to load the trays and cut down the queues, while a new auto scan system performs an initial assessment of the content of the tray, and shows the operator an image only when it spots a suspicious item.

The sun beats down on the queue snaking round the block from this bar and restaurant in Gugulethu, a vibrant township 11 miles from Cape Town.

It is unclear to this correspondent whether the accreditation system actually broke or just slowed down, but the queue for accreditation stretched for hundreds of metres and most of the day.