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Discover LudwigThe part of a sentence "put a clock on" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when giving instructions or directions on how to place or install a clock in a specific location. Example sentence: "Can you please put a clock on the wall above the fireplace? I always lose track of time while cooking dinner."
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I eventually won the game – no one put a clock on it so we don't know the time it took, but we do know that there were 37 deuces.
Because if you put a clock on yourself, you put yourself on the clock.
If I need to work, I try to put a clock on it – a few hours, no more – so it doesn't drift, consuming those two precious days.
You put a clock on us and there were times in the third period [of the 5-2 Game 3 victory] we had the puck for over a minute and a half".
A Sydney newspaper later put a clock on the fight and found the time-keeper added 15 seconds to the sixth round (in which Browne was decked) and took 44 seconds off the end of the seventh, as the challenger stormed back.
"We put a clock on ourselves and committed to completing" visa reviews in 2 weeks.
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"And it puts a clock on it," Roth said.
Putting a clock on the cycle time of key decisions can help not only to speed them up but also to limit unnecessary requests for more data and analysis.
Put a clock and your business cards on your desk.
His brother's rapid descent he's now on disability put a ticking clock on Marchetti's dreams.
"People put a pendulum clock on every mantelpiece; they are wrong; what a lugubrious fashion.
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