How To Use Clocks In A Sentence
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In 1974 he published the definitive book on the history of carriage clocks.
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Spain is to move its clocks back one hour to be in time with Britain in a change that could sound the death knell for the siesta.
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It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful.
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The distinctive open fretwork pediment of the mahogany case is associated with clocks made in or near Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Federal period.
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By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
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His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
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This weekend the clocks go back and we will be plunged again into inky afternoons.
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Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft.
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They had a horse-drawn wagon full of clocks.
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Alarm clocks were going off, playing rock, Christian pop, jazz or reggae.
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He later discovered two travelling clocks and a signet ring, family heirlooms worth £700 and £200 in cash were missing.
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The first examples had painted wood or engraved and silvered dials similar to those of long case clocks.
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Forget time, he was told, tear up calendars, chuck away clocks, lie doggo and heal yourself with a long-term poultice of peace and quiet.
THE OPEN DOOR
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The functioning of a key depends on its rigidity whilst that of clocks and watches depend crucially on the weight of pendulum bobs or the elasticity of springs.
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It is safest to buy watches and clocks from reputable dealers or auction houses.
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It was with a feeling of relaxation and relief that every one heard the clocks strike the hour for the close of the poll.
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Lantern clocks originally ran on woven ropes, which were threaded over spikes on ratchet wheels.
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The "clocks" in question are actually millisecond pulsars – city-sized, sun-massed stars of ultradense matter that spin hundreds of times per second.
New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today
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Staffordshire Enamels boxes, bonbonnières, music boxes, cufflinks, paperweights and clocks are shipped all over the world to discerning collectors.
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The invention of timekeeping devices - hourglasses, water clocks, graduated tapers - made it possible for early civilized people to begin to control and standardize the units of time, and in doing so to coordinate their lives.
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Che clocks in at four and a half hours, and even as a two-parter, which is how Sundance is screening the film, that's a whole lot of movie.
Undefined
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A wide range of distinctive antique items - from jewellery, porcelain and paintings to clocks and a selection of furniture - will be on sale.
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In analog clocks, it's usually a knob that allows you to turn the hands yourself.
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The clocks go forward this weekend.
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Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym
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The 43-year-old civil servant has lost alarm clocks, television boosters, a microwave and a stereo.
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A dozen clocks chiming the hour for dinner.
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They define a standard atomic clock using periodic electromagnetic processes in atoms, then use electromagnetic signals to synchronize clocks that are far from the standard clock.
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Most European countries put the clocks forward in the spring.
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Conservation-Restoration of antique clocks, antique furniture, books and library material, ceramics and related materials and fine metalwork.
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The early pendulum clocks had short pendulums.
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It just seemed to me that it would be more interesting to have things like submarine sonars and old grandfather clocks and lines from famous movies and bird songs and things like that.
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That means that we are heavily dependent upon alarm clocks.
Christianity Today
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Many of these "capture clocks" run from the chip select line.
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Clocks decorated with mythological beings and resting on marble bases adorned desks, consoles, and mantelpieces in drawing rooms and studies everywhere during the First Empire.
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Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.
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These old edifices camouflage well-stocked shops that carry crafts, jewellery, trinkets, carrots, clocks, wants and necessities.
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A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down.
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His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
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Anthropologie Portable piggy hibachi Pig on Pig There are alarm clocks that cook your bacon and bacon screen-printed wallets.
Your Guide to the Best in Summer Food
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MacDonalds for Chrissake, in that black suit ... every Sunday like you could set the clocks by it.
Women? Don't get me started.
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On arrival you should report to reception where you will be directed to the queue for the appropriate discipline - porcelain, furniture, pictures, jewellery, silver, clocks and watches, arms and militaria, books or miscellaneous.
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Jewellery, vases, sculptures, clocks, mugs and jugs, teapots and plant pots will be among the many items on show.
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The clocks click like chips in a casino, piled to a wobbly tower.
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The clocks click like chips in a casino, piled to a wobbly tower.
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We ducked back into shadow, shivering, and VDU screens and Victorian bracket clocks told us how slowly the hours went by.
The Gates of Noon
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This phenomenon, called the piezoelectric effect, has been well known in certain crystals for more than a century and is the driving force behind quartz clocks and other applications.
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Among the thieves' haul were four antique boxes, rare Meissen porcelain figures, vases and bowls, and two ormolu clocks, which had all been in Lord Chichester's family for generations.
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But they can't turn back the clocks.
The Sun
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However the invention of the verge escapement in Europe in the 14th century led to a revolution in mechanical clocks.
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Taking a different tack, he proposed in 1746 to build two more clocks.
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One of his wooden-made yankee clocks is here – its case displaying "a most elegant picture" of Cupid, in frilled trowsers and morocco boots, the American prototype of the little god not being allowed to appear so scantily clad as he is generally represented.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
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Perhaps our watches were a little fast, or our internal clocks had been affected by the huge amount of alcohol in our systems.
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Have you seen those cuckoo clocks which have little weathermen as part of the mechanism?
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More accurate clocks based on the regular vibrations of a quartz crystal superseded them.
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In summer we usually put the clocks ahead one hour.
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Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
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The clocks go back today: welcome to winter.
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So one possibility is that there are genetically determined clocks which cause the nervous system to change how it learns from year to year.
The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
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Remember the clocks go back next weekend, bringing lighter mornings and sunsets as early as 4.30pm.
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Most European countries put the clocks forward in the spring.
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Some pulsars keep time better than the earth's most accurate clocks.
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Fine, I hope she clocks him one right on the nose, we've got to be moving in a minute.
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We watch commercials for pregnancy testers that warn women to remember their biological clocks.
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The clock's movement was passed to Country Clocks, a local horologist, for a complete overhaul.
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Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
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Don't forget to turn the clocks back tonight.
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All atomic clocks measure time in terms of the natural resonant frequencies of various atoms and molecules.
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With the birch catkins all gone by February, they come down and feed on the early dandelion clocks.
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We need sunshine in the mornings to reset our body clocks and rev us up for the day.
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The new clocks would not gain or lose one second in a thousand years.
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Various ideas were proposed and implemented - though most did not work well - to synchronize clocks within cities and thereby eliminate annoying discrepancies between different city clocks.
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More than a century later, president James Verdin runs a $20-million company that produces clocks, bell and clock towers, glockenspiels, and - in a nod to the 21st century - digital electronic carillons.
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They had sextants, early microscopes, clocks, thermometers, and barometers.
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On the other hand, the clocks caused problems with our cook when boiling eggs.
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They were gentlemen's half-hose cottonsilk mix, black with maroon clocks and parti-coloured toe and heel.
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He could hear three clocks ticking and a tap in an upstairs room dripping.
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Later, celestial navigation using sextants and fairly accurate clocks enabled absolute positioning, but the sailors had to refer back to dead reckoning on days with poor weather conditions.
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I always liked to plunker with stuff: tearing up clocks and putting them back together.
Oral History Interview with Johnnie Jones, August 27, 1976. Interview H-0273. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Clocks made from computer parts, pulp novels and funky record sleeves tick away the slightly dusty afternoon to the somnolent beat of ‘Stand by Me.’
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Like your ordinary fairy, she used to turn ‘numberless wicked people into beasts, birds, milestones, clocks, pumps, bootjacks, umbrellas, or other absurd shapes’ and give lovely gifts to her godchildren.
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Many of these "capture clocks" run from the chip select line.
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A network of government laboratories all over the world together average the measurement of hundreds of atomic clocks to produce International Atomic Time, the ultimate reference against which all other clocks are calibrated.
Eureka: The Ultimate Clock
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Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
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Around 1660, clocks with longer pendulums were introduced by English clockmakers.
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But they can't turn back the clocks.
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Everything is genuine and costly, as becomes the gifts of a king, though it must be admitted that certain of the royal offerings which are ranged at the foot of the shrine, such as jeweled French clocks, figurines of Sèvres and Dresden porcelain, and a large marble statue of a Roman goddess, are of doubtful appropriateness.
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Daniel Burnap's daybooks and ledgers record the sale of forty-nine clocks over a twenty-year period.
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And, as you'd expect, all things Elvis clutter the shelves, from figurines to drinking glasses to wallets to tins to plates to clocks to jukeboxes to lamps to cookie jars.
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They tend to be easy to program, and because they run on batteries, the clocks do not lose time during power outages.
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But for a direct comparison of clocks to be made, the traveler must return.
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In this enthusiastic adaptation, readers follow a stylized puppetlike Alice on her adventures, which are illustrated with elaborate mixed-media collages featuring a madcap assortment of books, clocks, and photographs, as well as doors and windows that open.
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That will give us time to adjust our physiological clocks.
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Residents of East London and Umtata are ticked off over their tardy city hall clocks, while the timekeepers in Queenstown and King William's Town CBDs are steady as ever.
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However, while synchronizing distant clocks is a problem, they nonetheless run at the same intrinsic rates as each other when held in the same inertial frame.
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On arrival in Penobscot Bay they set up their equipment, calibrated their clocks with other astronomical observations, and confidently awaited the eclipse.
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The fault lies not with atomic clocks, but with the day itself.
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Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
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And now we are in a position where we have clocks in all of our computers and a lot of our electronic devices which are preprogrammed to spring forward on a particular day.
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Before take-off the scientists synchronized the on-board clocks with a land-based clock, and after landing they checked to see if the on-board units still showed the same time as the land-based one.
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When the first clocks were built, the marketing department informed engineering that the clocks had better go deasil, or all hell would break out.
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They were first introduced in 1972, by which time atomic and astronomical clocks were already ten seconds out of kilter and all ten were added at once.
The Sun
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And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
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Thanks do not go out to my alarm clocks, which failed to work this morning resulting in my awakening in absolute panic at 2 pm, with only one third of the moot prepared.
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When he was twelve he became almost obsessively interested in clocks and watches.
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I woke up when the power was restored sometime after eleven and stumbled around resetting the clocks and making sure my computer, which I had unplugged from the power source, was hooked up again.
June 2005
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I can hear their alarm clocks beep, see their lights flick on.
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Huygens' clocks, which tended to lose only 15 seconds a day, were a vast improvement over earlier timekeepers.
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So here comes September, and I've packed up my bucket bong and my collection of clocks and said hooroo to Australia, the land where nobody likes a bogan.
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set the clocks back an hour
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And then it was ringing midnight, and they were in the Martian time slip, the thirty-nine-and-a half-minute gap between 12: 00: 00 and 12: 00: 01; when all the clocks went blank or stopped moving.
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The sucker clocks me good on the left cheek-bone.
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In spring we usually set the clocks ahead one hour to take advantage of the summer daylight.
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The alloy is called Inver and it is used extensively in clocks, tapes and wire measures, differential expansion regulators, and in aluminium pistons with a split skirt in order to give an expansion approximating to that of cast iron.
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We watch commercials for pregnancy testers that warn women to remember their biological clocks.
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Although mass produced, these clocks were finely if not heavily gilded, and some wear should be expected if the gilding is claimed as original.
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Clocks go faster or slower over time, batteries and power sources go dead, or important time changes, such as daylight saving, can be forgotten.
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Many English longcase clocks had cases designed in the style of the period in which they were made.
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Biological clocks encourage most people to be awake in the daytime and to sleep at night.
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With the gradual introduction of mechanical clocks around the fourteenth century, hours of standard length became general.
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Arthur also studied the commercial ties between clockmakers, watchmakers, and cabinet-makers, since tall-case clocks were a collaborative effort.
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On the other hand, the clocks caused problems with our cook when boiling eggs.
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The clocks work normally - perfectly normally, whether they're accelerating or in strong gravity.
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Your clocks are equally valid only if you each continue to occupy an inertial reference frame.
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Others stayed home to protest at the over-control of the campaign, the same men in grey suits regurgitating their party mantra like speaking clocks.
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When we put the clocks forward in March we go into British Summer Time.
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Now suppose that the pendulums of the two clocks were arrested.
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Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense of well-off southern toffs.
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Clocks in every room are still ticking and three koi carp still swim in the garden pond, which overlooks peaceful Accrington countryside.
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One solution would be to nudge adolescent clocks into sync by controlling their light exposure.
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Dating from between about 1795 and 1800, it has a dial signed by David Wood of Newbusyport, Massachusetts, who also made tall-case and banjo clocks.
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THE land of cuckoo clocks is now accessible via Eurostar.
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With his interest in the measurement of time, he then discovered the pendulum could be a regulator of clocks.
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Guests there, as well educated and self respected people do, arrive at the party not less than an hour late, have the best of times with a good mariachi or trío, dance and disorder, soul and song, only to say goodnight when they feel like it, not worrying at all at unmeaningful details like hours and clocks.
Mexican Punctuality
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Time can be measured exactly by clocks and sundials, but human beings can rarely measure time accurately, for the feeling of the passage of time varies in each human being, and even then is not constant but varies with moods and events.
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Other more recent tests involve direct comparison of the time-keeping of atomic clocks or of masers.
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Furthermore, clocks were a symbol of wealth and social status at that time.
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A dozen clocks chiming the hour for dinner.
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EVENTIDE The original company name was Eventide Clockworks, chosen by founder Richard Factor because "eventide" means "evening" and he started out by making digital clocks for DJs after hours.
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Government workers were made to punch time clocks morning, noon and night.
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They had sextants, early microscopes, clocks, thermometers, and barometers.
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set clocks or instruments
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At his death in 1999 Edey bequeathed his collection of twenty-five clocks, fourteen watches, and an extensive horological library to the Frick Collection in New York City.
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The shortest piece on The Boys clocks in at a mere three minutes and fifteen seconds (although three tracks do stretch to a shade over ten minutes).
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For another, the numeral 1 is kerned to prevent the big gap between characters usually seen on LED clocks.
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Sap rises, rabbits cavort, the clocks go forward, the taxmen prepare to pounce and the allergic begin to sneeze.
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There are countless examples of singer Eddie's bright, showy wit, and mini-tunes galore on an album which clocks in at a pleasing forty minutes or so.
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Is it coincidence that our generation is infatuated with digital watches and clocks?
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Field edge paths have fancy dandelions, namely goats beard, broadcasting their large clocks of seeds.
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Apart from chests and jugs, investors also love to collect clocks, silverware and ceramics.
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If you are unable to see the clocks due to poor vision, use a digital wristwatch or a smaller pace clock that can be placed at the end of your lane.
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So why don't you just come with me to the store and at least take a look at the wind-up clocks.
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The clocks may have gone back an hour and darkness may be falling at 5pm, but the good news is that this is the best time of year for lovers of warm, rich foods.
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Images of genies and bottles, clocks turned back, trains leaving stations, and the like tend to pepper our discourse and justify our passivity in the face of a historical force majeure.
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In the world of the pit depicted here, such attributes are as dandelion clocks in the wind.
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But whatever happens with the clocks, I guess few things can help the slow onset of the winter blues.
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There is nothing on George's interest in scientific instruments, beyond clocks and barometers, and only one small case on the Queen's patronage of botany and ‘women's’ crafts.
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Her specialty is recycling old cabinets into display pieces for her ever-changing collections, which range from cocktail shakers to alarm clocks.
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Those given the supplement saw their body clocks speed up about eight minutes faster.
The Sun
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I was down to Rhode Island one summer to larn gilden and bronzin, so as to give the finishin touch to my clocks.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
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I repair pre-electric, mechanical clocks of the early 20th century and before.
Clocks
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Alarm clocks may be either single, or, double train dependant upon the number of mainsprings utilized by the movement.
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The time of science is a mathematical conception, symbolized as a unit of measure by clocks and chronometers.
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In the absence of an adequate fossil record, geological events, rather than the first appearances of sister taxa in the geological record, are often used to calibrate molecular clocks.
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Most European countries put the clocks forward in the spring.
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Fingerprints also are being used with a number of other devices including time clocks, cell phones, door locks and safes.
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Without atomic clocks, GPS navigation would be impossible, the Internet would not synchronize, and the position of the planets would not be known with enough accuracy for space probes and landers to be launched and monitored.
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The jays conduct a rousing reveille of check check check to awaken me at dawn, eliminating the need for mechanical alarm clocks.
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Critical technologies, such as atomic clocks and signal generators, are under development and work is progressing as planned.
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THE land of cuckoo clocks is now accessible via Eurostar.
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Damage included excrement in a tea pot, broken prizeboards, smashed clocks and graffiti-covered walls.
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They corrected deviations of internal clocks by comparison with radio controlled wristwatches.
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The announcement comes just a week after rail bosses responsible for redeveloping the railway station got round to fitting new clocks on the platforms, more than 18 months after the station revamp was completed.
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When considering the cases of tall-case pendulum clocks he remarks on their slapdash construction of butted and nailed boards.
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That was when quartz clocks and electrical clocks were becoming so cheap that the need for the people to service mechanical clocks dried up.
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That was when quartz clocks and electrical clocks were becoming so cheap that the need for the people to service mechanical clocks dried up.
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But consider too the times of day that certain flowers will bloom; you can plant morning glories, four-o'clocks and night-blooming jasmine together for a garden that will bloom from dawn past dusk.
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David S. Landes's Revolution in Time treats ‘clocks and the making of the modern world’ in earlier historical periods, with a good emphasis on economic history as well as horology and philosophy.
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Want a career as a chronobiological consultant and trainer balancing clients 'inner clocks?
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Of cozeners, that haunt this occupation, that they cannot well tell how to live one by another, but as he jested in the Comedy of Clocks, they were so many, [2027] major pars populi arida reptant fame, they are almost starved a great part of them, and ready to devour their fellows,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There is a broad selection of Irish and European paintings, as well as silver, ceramics, glass, fine clocks, carpets and rugs, militaria and a good selection of appropriately seasonal garden furniture.
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And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
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We have two internal body clocks - the primary one is influenced by daylight and controls your sleep via the food.
The Sun
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In order to account for the constancy of the speed of light, Einstein had to accept that moving clocks run more slowly than stationary clocks and that moving objects shrink in the direction of their motion.
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So over the next few months, Intel will continue to ramp the clockspeed of its processors.
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However, clocks and watches suffered from a lack of precision in both operation and standardization.
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Don't forget to turn the clocks back tonight.
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He noticed that the pendulums of the two suspended clocks, hanging side by side from a common support, were swinging together.
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We watch commercials for pregnancy testers that warn women to remember their biological clocks.
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Kidman plays a prototypical bubblehead who is only smart when she decides to turn back clocks for breakfast or to magically change the spending level on a credit card.
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BRITAIN could run on continental European time following indications that the government will not block a campaign to change how we set our clocks.
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When his pack was unrolled, calicoes, glittering knives, razors, scissors, clocks, cotton caps, shoes and notions made a holiday at a fair.
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You see, all mechanical clocks are driven by a weight, like a pendulum, or a tightly wound spring.
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The bathroom towels would probably get changed twice a year, along with the clocks.
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Prayer is a pure negotiation with angels on the right, two wrong too and hope, an accommodation in place of stroke, tintinnabulation of one billion clocks, stopped by a gong of long-held reservations.
Repetitive Is The New Novena
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We need sunshine in the mornings to reset our body clocks and rev us up for the day.
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Two ideally synchronized clocks need not stay in synchrony if they undergo different accelerations or different gravitational forces.
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Both students and teachers were overjoyed when DMS clocks were declared the winners.
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The clocks were turned back exactly 150 years in historic Haworth to re-enact the wedding of one of Britain's favourite classical authors.
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When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cats paw: the rich dark smell of earth and the stronger, soapy scent of night-blooming flowersmoonflowers, white angels trumpet, four-oclocksand some she didnt recognize, like a plant bearing a star-shaped yellow blossom whose petals were medallioned with golden pollen.
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