Example sentences of "[adv] ticking over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breed was merely ticking over , a curiosity in the hands of a dedicated few . |
| 2 | The machines were only ticking over . |
| 3 | It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly . |
| 4 | He did n't know what it was , but now it was n't small talk and he was n't just ticking over any more . |
| 5 | And keep it so it 's just ticking over , so that on average you 're absorbing two of these neutrons , say and just one is going on to st start another one , and you just you know ju It 's very fine control on the fuel rods . |
| 6 | The engine was just ticking over and the launch seemed to nose into the maze as though feeling her own way . |
| 7 | For the rest of the war it was a case of just ticking over until a splendid Victory Meet in 1919 which raised cash to help build the Richmond YMCA . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's where you have a body which is only just ticking over , but where the brain survives . |
| 9 | But this usually means the power amp is hardly ticking over in and so the resulting distortion is rarely fully representative of what the amp can do at full throttle . |
| 10 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 11 | I seem to believe it as long as you 're still ticking over nicely . |
| 12 | I smiled at her , and she jammed a copy of Pravda into my hand , her smile still ticking over . |
| 13 | Did his shop flourish , was it simply ticking over , had it been sold , or even gone bankrupt ? |
| 14 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 15 | My mind is barely ticking over . |