were queuing
Past progressive conjugation of queue.

queue

In the Folketing, the Danish Minister for Internal Affairs said in response to a question I had asked that Bosnians and Croats were queuing up to return home and were being delayed partly because of a lack of transport.
Dans sa réponse au Folketing, le ministère danois de l'Intérieur a indiqué que les bosniaques et les croates se pressaient dans les files d'attente pour regagner leurs pays et qu'ils étaient retardés, entre autres, par le manque de transports.
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