I missed the countdown to zero in my ear from the producer and was still talking as the show ended.
But with economic activity not expected to pick up until late 2009, interest rates will be on a countdown to zero over the next few months.
UNAIDS has begun a countdown to zero: "No new HIV infections, no discrimination, and no new AIDS deaths".
Wait for the 20 second timer to countdown to zero.
Just over two weeks after announcing a countdown to 25 billion app downloads, Apple has revealed that the milestone has been reached.
Of the top five career leaders in errors, according to Sports-Reference.com, the Web site that tracked the countdown to 500,000, four are shortstops, including the career leader, Herman Long, who had 1,096.
This hope is not a delusion; it is an ideal — and in our countdown to November, one still worth striving for.
The Project Mercury team worked the countdown to within ten minutes 30 seconds of target time, then was forced to call a halt as a cloud cover at 18,000 feet closed over the missile-launching area.
The countdown to the thousand duly became a huge national event, one that would capture the imagination of the Brazilian public like little else outside of a World Cup.
IF THE weather holds and there are no unforeseen complications, then early in the morning on July 8th a woman and three men will ascend the launch tower at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre, strap themselves into Atlantis, the last operational space shuttle, and, as the engines ignite, wait for the countdown to reach zero.
