"You can take the clock apart, lay the pieces out in front of you, and then try to understand what makes it tick by putting it back together again," he said.
If it ticks up by any amount, sell all your stock, save, and repeat.
That's ridiculous," as it ticked down minute by minute.
Collections define an institution, give it shape and personality, make it tick, day by day, year by year.
"It ticks all the terrorists' boxes by attracting publicity and raising economic concerns," said James Wilkes, a director of Gray Page, a London security consultant for the shipping industry.
It ticked down by 0.1percentt last month not because more people found jobs, but because 450,000 people withdrew from the labor market.
This is before, of course, they are bodily strapped into chairs to catch up on their Summer Reading Course (in which they are supposed to read a book a week, and have it ticked off by someone in September).
It keeps ticking by with no results, because the system is broken".
It was only as the years ticked by that it became clear how huge a threat they pose.
As the seasons tick by, it's heightened by the realisation that they too are finite.
As the hours ticked by, it seemed as if the report might never come.
