Example sentences of "tell [art] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at first assessment the difficulties faced by these dementia sufferers are apparent : two-thirds could not identify three coins , three out of five could not name three or four parts of a watch , and one half could not tell the time or correctly select a medicine bottle . |
| 2 | And then another part of the story is he made a whole alphabet without telling the Times and they . |
| 3 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 4 | As Southern has remarked , this passage , only part of which I have quoted , illustrates the difficulties encountered in those days of telling the time and Walcher 's anxiety for precision in seeking to establish the exact correlation between the phases of the moon and the solar calendar . |
| 5 | Be able to tell the time and understand times expressed in terms of 12- and 24-hour clocks . |