Sentence examples for reckoning time from inspiring English sources

So my reckoning time of death by coagulation of the blood was all thrown off".

Astrolabe, any of a type of early scientific instrument used for reckoning time and for observational purposes.

In the old system of reckoning time, Kekri was a critical period between the old and new years when the ancestor spirits came to visit their former homes.

As Ptolemy showed in his Planisphaerium, the fact that the stereographic projection maps circles into circles or straight lines makes the astrolabe a very convenient instrument for reckoning time and representing the motions of celestial bodies.

The development of a calendar is vital for the study of chronology, since this is concerned with reckoning time by regular divisions, or periods, and using these to date events.

It should probably tell you something about me that one of my ways of reckoning time in terms of recent events in my life is by trying to remember who was on the International Space Station at the time.

Traditionally, humankind has reckoned time by the spin of the Earth and its orbit around the sun.

In other words, the light that made this picture was thirty-one millioldyeass old, as we reckon time here on earth, by the time it hit the Hubble's aperture.

His officials reckon time is on their side, as sanctions and falling oil prices put pressure on Iran.America's domestic politics is unlikely to make a deal any easier, and may well make one harder.

The first decade of every century was problematic, but until the 20th, no one reckoned time by decade.

The World in 2012 reckons times will be tough for the airlines but optimistically predicts a rise in spending by both tourists and business travellers, arguing that "wanderlust will prove immune to patchy economic conditions".