Deleting large numbers of photos

I shot a high school football game last night with my D3. Using 9 fps, I quickly ended up with lots of pictures to sift through. Being very selective to print only the best, I am throwing away 90% of what I now have in Lightroom 2. I have a slow old computer and it takes the better part of a minute to delete one picture. I know how to do one picture at a time but there must be a better way. How can I mark/select large groups of pictures to delete so I don't have to wait for "loading" to finish on each individual picture?

Hi, I mark the photos I want to delete by pressing "X", which flags them as Rejected, and then once done, I press Ctrl+BackSpace (on Windows - not sure if MAC is the same, or Command + Backspace or something) and they all get deleted. (eg the last shoot was our California trip - 800 photos. Quickly went through the batch, and deleted once at the end.)
Hope this helps,
Kai

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