The seconds tick away on a giant electronic countdown clock located on the field's edge.
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I went to Tate Modern's 24-hour screening on Saturday, to watch my life tick away.
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The detectives try to extract critical information about the crime from suspects while countdown clocks tick away.
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She sits alone each night in an austere salon, listening to a grandfather clock tick away the minutes.
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After the milestone birthday of 21, it's pretty easy to forget your age as the years just tick away.
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If she went to trial for a second time and lost, her years of fertility would tick away in prison.
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The world's richest man made a $42 million investment in a vast clock, now under construction, that is designed to tick away for 10,000 years.
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To that end, without consulting his ex-wife, he spirits Tick away to a place where she'll be safe and he can help her to mend.
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As the seasons tick away, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams are shocked to find their onscreen Game of Thrones personas still kickin' it while others fall around them.
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Defensive assignments drift by, games slip away, and moments tick away, like so many grains of sand through the damn hourglass as the next stop—summer vacation or the playoffs—approaches.
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It's impossible to summarize just how much the American soccer landscape has changed while Wenger watched the clock in the North End tick away week after week, so I won't try.
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When the mundanity of the day can't tick away fast enough till you can flee back to your own universe and satisfy that need to devour someone and make everything else disappear.
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Including those on the bank of timepieces on the foreign desk that tick away time zones across the globe, from Paris to London, from Hong Kong to Kathmandu (a Felix the Cat clock).
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As the months tick away, what becomes depressingly clear is that every ideal the institution stands for — free inquiry, equal rights for women and ethnic minorities — will be in jeopardy once American troops are reduced.
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WorryFree also evokes some familiar practices— labor in for-profit prisons and the endless cycle of debt that keeps people in poverty — that may feel ripped from a dystopian novel, but are just one tick away from plausible.
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Tweet by tweet, photo by photo, text by text, the percentage points tick away, until you're scrambling in your bag for a battery pack amid a tangle of chargers and cables or searching the packed halls and press lounges for a free plug point — an oasis in the desert.
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August would be the ideal month, a time when petty tensions between members begin rising as the days tick away toward Labor Day, the last day the club is open, said Tommy Cheeseman, 49, an undertaker from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn who was at his usual spot by the pool.
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Trapped beneath the damaged pilot's seat, Maya cannot reach the door's manual release. With four minutes remaining, Maya transforms into a Psychon toddler, wriggles free and opens the hatch. Lifting off, Koenig blasts away at full throttle. The final seconds tick away on the trigger and the waste area is consumed in a massive explosion.
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Using Lavinia's books on witchcraft, she and K9 deduce it must occur at midnight on the winter solstice, now just a few short hours away. The where of it is more elusive, however, causing the duo to drive around the shire looking at all the churches. As the last few minutes before midnight tick away, they finally realise that there's an abandoned chapel on Lavinia's property. Rushing home, K9 and Sarah are briefly upset at missing something that was right under their noses all along.
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35 & Ticking centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Cleavon, and Phil -- all friends over the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria (Tamala Jones) is married to a man who doesn't want children. Cleavon (Kevin Hart), meanwhile, is too geeky to get a woman, and Phil (Keith Robinson) is already married with children, but his wife is not very interested in being a mother. All four of them try to rectify their romantic lives and futures while their biological clocks tick away.
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The BBC got more letters on his unexpected death in the series than any other subject since the Second World War. Wren was trying to disarm a nuclear device, which had been traced to a pavilion at the end of a seaside pier at Byfield Regis. Having thought he was finished, a pair of wire cutters slips from Wren's hands and falls into the sea just before he discovers a last wire as the remaining seconds tick away. Though the nuclear part of the bomb is safe, we see the pavilion explode as the conventional explosive goes off, killing Wren and two others.
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