Sentence examples for a while to clock from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a while to clock" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to imply taking time to complete a task or to measure time, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "It took a while to clock the hours needed for the project."
Alternatives: "a while to measure" or "some time to record".

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It took me a while to clock what its founders, Russell Norman, late of the suited-and-booted Caprice Group, and his business partner Richard Beatty, had done.

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Forever and six days screeched to a halt, while the clock continues to run out on our youngest's childhood.

Roughly 380,000 federal employees across the country are furloughed and out of a job, while another 420,000 continue to clock in as "essential" personnel.

If you're not in a good mood when you return home from work, putting on a nice dress or tie (or a particular outfit that makes you feel great) once in a while can help to reset the mood clock.

Encouraging employees to clock in while sick, these proponents argue, is immoral and threatens public health.

He admitted to taunting the Giants a bit while trying to kill the clock, along with Coughlin's karma.

A certain rhythm may often only apparently be entrained to a Zeitgeber while the internal clock at the same time is not affected.

Charles A. Goldstein, counsel to the Commission for Art Recovery, said "the museum strung along" the Groszes, holding out the possibility of a settlement while the clock ran out.

While a clock ticks down to showtime, dancing hot dogs and rope-jumping ice cream bars drive patrons toward concession stands.

Marclay warned me that, for a while, I'd notice clocks with distressing frequency.

This new system allows non-exempt and temporary employees to clock in and out daily with a web clock, while exempt employees can enter absence hours.

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