Example sentences of "marking time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 2 | It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly . |
| 3 | The board 's chairman , Lord Carlisle , said : ‘ We are still marking time . |
| 4 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 5 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 6 | I recognised it could mean marking time but I do n't think in practice that has happened . |
| 7 | Part-time solicitors , accountants or doctors will rarely become partners in their firms ; they are at best marking time , at worst barring themselves for ever from the higher reaches of their professions . |
| 8 | So , when still playing , still marking time with the great drum strapped to his back and clashing the cymbals , still rattling the bells , and making the melody with his mouth organ , he began to half-dance , half-walk down the middle of the road , she followed a few paces behind and safely on the pavement . |
| 9 | It suggested that the system was not just marking time but actually losing ground in some areas : |
| 10 | We were all marking time , waiting for our demob , and tended to look back wistfully at what was past and familiar , rather than forward to the unknown future . |
| 11 | Despite its unlikely new role producing computer-oriented clones of Sir John Harvey-Jones , Softwright is clearly marking time , waiting for customers to start moving again . |
| 12 | I went through everyday life merely marking time until I could leave Ireland for Britain to become the real me . |
| 13 | I want Marking Time and that three-year-old filly of yours to run at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 14 | Or are you marking time , hoping your fairy godmother will wave her magic wand ? |
| 15 | Now the NZRFU seems more intent on marking time on the South African issue . |
| 16 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 17 | They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them . |
| 18 | Forest striker Teddy Sheringham has been left anxiously marking time on a £2.1 million move to Tottenham . |
| 19 | But sometimes there was an uneasy undercurrent to disturb the tranquillity — including , of course , the feeling that I was marking time while great and stirring events were in the offing — war , for instance . |
| 20 | I was marking time until something better came along |
| 21 | CUT DOWN MARKING TIME |
| 22 | A new Marking Kit cuts down marking time dramatically . |
| 23 | No wonder Yves Montand says in the film Grand Prix : ‘ There 's only racing : everything else is marking time . ’ |
| 24 | All else has come to feel like marking time . |
| 25 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 26 | Is your money actually growing or merely marking time ? |
| 27 | MARKING TIME : Ambitious Akram |
| 28 | Marking time in a creative vacuum |
| 29 | They are simply marking time , waiting for fashion futures to be decided elsewhere . |