Sentence examples for tick against from inspiring English sources

Just how many of those boxes does a big industrial farm tick, against a small family farm?" Back out with his cows, as one of Hook's four sons led the herd slowly across the fields to the farm's antiquated, but spotless, 1970s parlour for the afternoon milking, Hook didn't really have any doubts.

For the disillusioned this is not just a chance to cast an angry cross or tick against austerity.

Figure 4 plots an estimate of reproductive fitness for each female tick against the burdens of the Coxiella sp. in the female after oviposition.

"He doesn't often announce his team this early... it's a tick against their box, it's a confidence thing".

But the clock, as Mr Clinton also noted, is ticking against us all.

Even when court rulings were going his way, the clock was ticking against him.

The stink of a joss stick in the air, prisms ticking against the windows.

Influential Labour MP Frank Field has said the "clock is ticking" against companies who exploit workers trapped in the gig economy.

She could hear her sneakers in the gravel, and she could hear the bugs ticking against the lights, up on their poles, but with Conner's engine throttled down low, drumming, how could she?

Of course flying West to East the clock is also ticking against me, as the East Coast mails started when I got on the plane, and the West Coast mails will be flowing long after I land.

The supernatant was discarded and the cell pellet was loosened by gently ticking against the tube.