Sentence examples for a tick of from inspiring English sources

Does everyone have to have a tick of sartorial approval?

What's less clear is whether there's actually been a tick of momentum back toward Mr. Santorum.

Inter-species conflict, it seems, is but a tick of the doomsday clock away.

Since then, it has gained a tick of approval from Amy Poehler's Smart Girls organisation, and a whole lot of momentum under the hashtag #wlclub.

Then, by a tick of the Torre dell'Orologio clock, it's time to ring in the New Year with a party in St Mark's Square.

The light clock is just a pair of mirrors with a pulse of light bouncing between them; each bounce is a tick of the clock.

Understanding that simple economic reality just a tick ahead of my rivals brought me wealth, position, and power.

If you had a tick list of what you wanted to find, this was it".

Each module can run on its own clock, where each step of the module coincides with a clock tick of the module's clock.

All positive ticks were A. parvum, a common tick of domestic animals that frequently feeds on humans in Argentina and Brazil and is considered a potential vector of zoonoses (10 ).

In 1996, B. lonestari was discovered in Amblyomma americanum, an ixodid tick of the southern and eastern United States (4, 5 ).