IPhone 5 power button not always working

Hey all,
I got this iPhone 5 (white) 64GB a year from last Christmas. Where I work there is lots of flour, so even with the case on the phone, and even trying to keep the phone away from dust, I think it got to the power button. It still works fully, but I have to press it 3-4 times or even more sometimes to turn the screen off on the phone. To wake it up, same thing. I used the Home button to wake it up in that case. Is there anything I can do to fix this without bringing it in, or taking it apart?. I was thinking my vacuum designed for gadgets and computers, just turn it off and vacuum around the top of the phone a bit, and around the case itself. Let me know what you guys think, thanks.
P,S, the phone is not scratched at all, has never been dropped so this is the only issue I've had with it after a year of ownership.

It seems that this problem is very common, I've asked around. At least three people I know have had the same problem with their iPhone's (iPhone 4, iPhone 5 so far). How come no one replied to this question I posted?, is it a question that everyone hates to answer?.
The only answer I've gotten from research is by using AssistiveTouch to lock my phone, and turning off my iPhone by holding down on the "Lock Screen" button while using the AssistiveTouch feature. (But I'm still mad that this happened).
I found out that this is not a problem with dust. The button's just do this to us. Other owners I know that had this problem were not working around dust.
The only question that still remains, is if this problem is covered under warranty?. But really, from the past I've seen a cracked screen as not covered under warranty, and the same goes for water damage. A bad power button?, that has happened frequently to probably thousands of iPhone owners?. It probably isn't covered. Please correct me if I am wrong in all that I have said here.

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