So the U.K. government's 25-minute and 45-minute waiting-time targets don't include time to get from the gate to the back of the proper queue, or time spent being checked by an agent.
The time-share operator would queue up an assortment of customers so that not a second of processor time went to waste.
There are conceptually two ways this can be done: by the price in money that people must hand over or by the price of time people must queue for it.
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That's why places where you have to queue provide lots of clues about waiting time.
In health, we will set out tomorrow a new guarantee of treatment within a set time which starts from the moment a patient is referred by their GP - not the time that they get onto the queue for their operation.
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If your favorites are mostly on one channel, then they can also be added as a Favorite, so all of that channel's shows will be in the list, all the time, or you can add shows and movies to the queue directly for easy access to them on streaming services.
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Some Libyans elsewhere do not deny it, arguing that Sirte got more than its fair share of the investment in Gaddafi's time, so now it can go to the back of the queue.
There are over a hundred background themes to choose from in the Theme Garden, a queue option to line up future blog posts with the ability to choose the date and time the next post will get published, and an entire language running rampant invented by Tumblr users.
Airport monitors counted waiting time by identifying a different passenger each 15 minutes at the very back of the queue, which could be a line formed before passengers split off into separate lines for European passengers, non-European passengers and those prescreened for expedited-entry programs.
Those astronomers in the queue to use Herschel at that moment will no doubt be disappointed, but also philosophical: observing time was allocated on the basis that the opportunity could not be guaranteed as the mission moved into its end phase.
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