We just don't know how to write it down or tick it off".
In mid-October, with the 60-day clock ticking down, it inserted "Dear Employee" letters in employees' pay envelopes, announcing that the contract negotiations had failed and that it had no choice but to make its "final offer".
"As the days ticked down, it seemed as if the district was fizzing with delight … " Can this really be the first Call The Midwife Christmas Special (Christmas Day, 7.30pm, BBC1)?
And as the clock ticked down, it looked as if the visitors would walk away with an unlikely three points until substitute Bellomo, who had been on the pitch for only 10 minutes, earned his side a draw with a lovely curled strike into the top left corner.
With time ticking down, it looked as though the home side were headed for a third straight defeat, but Hooper pounced on a loose ball inside the box on 85 minutes and smashed in low to ease the pressure around Carrow Road.
And, as it ticks down toward its final minutes, presumably sometime in 2018, will Bond manage to free the girl from her underwater cage, start the Aston Martin, and get out before the whole thing blows?
"It's a clock that's ticking down and it gains speed as it gets closer to zero," said Tomer.
The fact that, almost four years into what is officially classified as a recovery, the labor force participation rate still isn't rising — in March it ticked back down to 63.3 per cent — is particularly worrying.
They built a lead of more than six minutes on the ride to Beverley but it began to tick down once they turned westwards after Norton and as they reached York the group splintered, with McNally left out in front with Belgian Bert De Backer (Giant-Alpecin).
The clock is ticking down towards it... 2 hours and 10 minutes to go.
