Example sentences of "mark time " in BNC.

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1 It may mark time this year , not least because of the drop in production of the British Aerospace Jetstream 31 aircraft for which Hunting makes the interior .
2 Gaultier has remained true to himself , and must therefore mark time until fashion comes back around to his idiosyncratic viewpoint .
3 Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time .
4 It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly .
5 The board 's chairman , Lord Carlisle , said : ‘ We are still marking time .
6 Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment .
7 Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment .
8 I recognised it could mean marking time but I do n't think in practice that has happened .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It suggested that the system was not just marking time but actually losing ground in some areas :
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I went through everyday life merely marking time until I could leave Ireland for Britain to become the real me .
15 I want Marking Time and that three-year-old filly of yours to run at Kempton on Saturday .
16 Or are you marking time , hoping your fairy godmother will wave her magic wand ?
17 Now the NZRFU seems more intent on marking time on the South African issue .
18 On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house .
19 They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them .
20 Forest striker Teddy Sheringham has been left anxiously marking time on a £2.1 million move to Tottenham .
21 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 .
22 I was marking time until something better came along
23 CUT DOWN MARKING TIME
24 A new Marking Kit cuts down marking time dramatically .
25 No wonder Yves Montand says in the film Grand Prix : ‘ There 's only racing : everything else is marking time . ’
26 All else has come to feel like marking time .
27 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 .
28 Is your money actually growing or merely marking time ?
29 MARKING TIME : Ambitious Akram
30 Marking time in a creative vacuum
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