We can practically feel it ticking away, marching on in the same direction with horrifying regularity.
Find yourself something that matches the rest of your decor and avoid a loud ticking clock at all costs!
But Naughtie said it would have been "death" to judge by box-ticking and they had had to decide on the individual merit of the books, not reputations.
Plus it helped keep the business ticking over and you never know where things might lead, in terms of sponsorship.
So the clock was ticking, the meter was running, and I had a choice to make; pursue my own needs, or save his life.
Meanwhile what he called the “Population Monster” was breathing down his neck, or rather ticking, like Captain Hook’s crocodile.
The business of the company has been ticking over for some time.
Rather, the researchers have determined that the neuron signals were marking intervals of time, ticking off time-stamps down to tens of milliseconds.
Meanwhile, global population is ticking skyward.
