How To Use Countdown In A Sentence
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The countdown to the rocket launch will begin at 9.00 am.
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On the clapometer scale it was somewhere between the closing credits of Countdown and a wet Thursday at Hove cricket ground.
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It's like a countdown to a blast-off of a rocket ship - like there's no way of stopping it.
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It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool.
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Riens pour nous faisons in Singapore, unless nous allons La Sentosa pour la plage countdown, ou Zouk, pour la fetes.
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The countdown to the rocket launch will begin at 9.00 am.
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The countdown has begun for the launch of the latest reality TV show from Endemol, the makers of Big Brother, and this really could be the one to end them all.
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London Olympics with gusto, Meadows is candid about her fear of the Games and the countdown to what she calls "doomsday".
Evening Standard - Home
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The new quadrennium, with its countdown to Beijing, has already begun.
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Underneath my chair was a pair of worn socks; Jack had obviously discarded them while watching Countdown earlier in the afternoon.
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The former Countdown maths whizz also had stitches in her forehead and eyelid.
The Sun
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Libraries across North Wiltshire will resound with festive cheer in the countdown to Christmas with a series of special events for children.
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A countdown is displayed over the grenade, and you see the exact trajectory it will take.
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Rocket man Steve Bennett has started the countdown to his first manned mission - to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' maiden flight.
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Themed "Countdown to Extinction", the fest will falso eature bands from Hong Kong,
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The multiverse is still around after Countdown, nothing mentioned what would happen to the multiverse following Final Crisis.
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All of which makes this a far more absorbing and instructive experience than your average festive countdown show.
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So in the final countdown, how are they doing, and how are their support crews of officials and friends helping out with last minute preparations?
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You can synchronise your digital watch with the countdown to ensure you start exactly as the gun goes.
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The countdown to glory began and it almost reached zero.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course my own personal countdown clock continues to tick away in joyful anticipation as the bacon-wrapped leg of the James tour heads my way.
Back in the U.S.S.A.
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The countdown has begun for the launch later today of the American space shuttle.
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PENHAUL (on camera): And as the countdown to the January 30 elections continues, government officials believe the resistance fighters whom they describe as desperadoes will step up their sabotage campaign.
CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2004
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With the holiday period drawing to a close, for many today will be their final 24 hours free from the toils of labour, before a return to work and the seemingly perpetual countdown to the summer holiday.
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As a way of reminding and motivating students, you can see chalked on blackboards in most classrooms countdowns of the days to the examination and some encouraging words.
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To commemorate the closing of Veterans Stadium, the Phillies are displaying a countdown banner on the out field wall that shows how many home games remain.
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But he has been persuaded to take questions on his feet and be subjected to a countdown timer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The countdown is on: NASA has only two shuttle launches left.
NASA Readies Shuttle Discovery for Final Mission
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The best is a digital countdown timer, but any watch or one-minute hand timer will do.
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But he has been persuaded to take questions on his feet and be subjected to a countdown timer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chris was standing with Chrissy on his arm, both of them watching the large digital countdown clock, which read five minutes.
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For example, the Datalink comes with a chronograph, countdown timer, interval timer, multiple alarms and even a notepad.
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I think this is the final countdown here.
The Sun
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He pressed the command conformation key, but the countdown didn't cease to stop.
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Meanwhile, a countdown to the end of the universe has begun, a suicidal madman engraves a mandala on the floor of an emptied swimming pool, a sleep-deprived astronomer cruises the dunes in a white Packard saloon, a raven-haired temptress named Coma plays the men off against each other.
The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
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Features such as the stopwatch, countdown timer and thermometer make it ideal for outdoor sporty types, while it's compact and light enough to slip into any pocket.
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That's according to the author of said book, Susie Dent, dictionary mistress on Countdown and general lexicographical bod referred to in a report in today's Guardian.
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While Horne's 2008 Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name focussed more on the personal quest - which took him all the way to the hallowed hotseat of a Vorderman-era Countdown showdown - the book covers a lot more etymological ground.
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The final countdown has begun for the release of the latest instalment in the adventures of storybook wizard Harry Potter.
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Just don't expect to see me out there before the final countdown.
The Sun
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Ben Stansall/Getty Images STILL WATER: London celebrated the one-year countdown to the Summer Games on Wednesday with the first dive into the new Olympic pool, shown here, at the new, gleaming aquatics center in the Olympic Park in east London.
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I would tell your MIL that you are finding the countdown stressful and your midwife has said stress can delay the onset of labour.
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The countdown to glory began and it almost reached zero.
Times, Sunday Times
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The countdown to the rocket launch will begin at 9.00 am.
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These changes will provide the base before the intensity switches to the athletes for the final 18-month countdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the very degree that the countdown to his departure next summer seems, for years, to have be anticipated with a mix of fear and dread by the Celtic faithful.
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The eleven o'clock ‘off’ from the City Hall came quickly and with the countdown from ten to zero, the Santas were on their way.
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When I surfaced, I heard the countdown beginning from ten.
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Cycling is a sport obsessed with numbers and as the countdown to next year's Commonwealth Games gathers momentum, such figures come into sharper focus.
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Why yes; with November 5th safely out of the way, my self-imposed moratorium on all things festive is lifted and we are free to celebrate the countdown to Christmas: 41 shopping days to go!!!
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As the countdown reached zero he fully squeezed the trigger.
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Four seperate police forces are monitoring every traveller's vehicle in the four day countdown to midsummer.
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There was a countdown clock ahead of them going on sale at 9am.
The Sun
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The countdown on the screen was now at twenty seconds.
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So the election countdown has effectively begun, though the poll probably will not be until May or June next year.
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Everyone leaned forward in anticipation as the final countdown began.
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Any pre-launch irregularities noted during a countdown can cause a launch to be aborted.
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To follow the launch countdown and the post-launch events watch the live webcam from the mission control room and follow our simplified launch status table in the attached link.
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The US space agency NASA began its countdown Saturday for tomorrow's rescheduled launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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Any player who interacts with these vermin becomes infected by the 2-minute debuff countdown.
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My newest heartthrob is Richard Wolffe, a Newsweek columnist and commentator on Countdown with Keith Olbermann (who I could crush on a little too).
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There was also a countdown timer to measure elapsed time for each question.
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Everybody was waiting: a digital clock overhead marked the minutes, repeated the countdown from 15 to the moment of decision.
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A convoy of lorries was seen heading towards B - 52 bombers at RAF Fairford yesterday as the countdown to war in Iraq entered its final hours.
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But, as the countdown to a possible war continues, the views of a politician who argues against war, under any circumstances, provide a different perspective on the debate.
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The countdown to the Notting Hill Carnival is in its final hours.
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Yes | No | Report from bgreen902 wrote 28 weeks 4 days ago rapala countdown is amazing ... but for live bait I toss a wax worm in the fast moving water and let it drift down ....
When i am fishing for trout in a fast flowing river what is the best bait to use?
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We are in countdown mode here at the Kennedy Space Center, as you look at live pictures of Eileen Collins, the commander of this mission, preparing with her communications gear, so-called beanie cap she's putting on there, before she makes her way into the Space Shuttle Discovery. launch expected 10: 39 a.m. Eastern Time.
CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005
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In Beijing, some traffic lights offer a countdown clock for both green and red signals.
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What follows is my countdown of the five horses that were overbet to the most extreme degree over the past decade at the Festival.
The Guardian World News
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It was not scheduled or given an elaborate countdown and fanfare. Sports editors hated it.
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So only now, as the centurial countdown begins, are we learning that the digit-dropping trick has changed from clever to catastrophic.
The Day The World Shuts Down
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A countdown led by the Wales Tourist Board chairman, a coastguard maroon and one of the loudest fireworks that the fireworks company could muster, sent the swim on its way.
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So far he's been seen baiting the crowd with false information, and leading them in a countdown from 10 to zero for no apparent reason.
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After her first attempt to crack the code failed (she guessed it), the countdown appeared on the clock's display.
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So the election countdown has effectively begun, though the poll probably will not be until May or June next year.
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His countdown clock is ticking to the end of the season.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parade arrived back in the square for the countdown to midnight and the new year was welcomed in with a magnificent display of fireworks, with young and old then wishing each other a happy new year.
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With just 12 weeks to go until the Oscars, the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association awards mark the start of the countdown to the showpiece event.
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The final giveaway in the countdown is a much coveted ARC of Karen Chance's Curse the Dawn, the fourth book in her Cassandra Palmer series.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Karen Chance - Curse the Dawn ARC
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In order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moonlanding, a Furby will be tied to rockets, a countdown will be made and we'll livestream its launching, in a happening taking place in a very crowded square.
Moonpander
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He could feel a little air rushing past him, and as the final countdown commenced, his face was wreathed in an angelic smile.
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Initial data analysis performed last night showed that the countdown, engine ignition and initial phase of flight were normal.
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If all goes well with the test, the countdown will continue to a lift-off at 16: 39 CEST on Tuesday.
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The unusual combination of familiar faces, and the unnerving sight of desolate domains viewed in night-vision luminescence is perfect for enjoying as the countdown to Halloween nears.
Ghost Hunting with VH1: the Celebrity Paranormal Project
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The countdown has begun to a celebration of York's past as a vital outpost of a multi-national empire, with the city's second annual Roman Festival.
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A chronograph, a countdown timer and dual-time zone readings flesh out its functions.
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This 26-issue miniseries -- initially described as biweekly, now revised to "twice a month," which provides a little more wiggle room -- looks like it's going to be another attempt at the "spine of the line" premise first attempted with Countdown; a lot of DC series will be spinning out of or directly tied into it.
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July 31st, 2009 6: 47 pm ET and well you should be mocked. its truly embarrasing what passes for news these days. you had a countdown the the "kegger" on TV. with the congress looking to slap BILLIONS of dollars of taxes on working americans to pay for a healthcare bill that NOBODY likes, i'm surprised you devote TV, internet coverage to "what kind of beer will be served?",
White House mocks coverage of 'Beer Summit'
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The countdown has started for teachers from around the United States striving to become permanent members of NASA's Astronaut Corps.
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SCTV once did a brilliant episode set on New Year's Eve 1983 in which, as soon as the countdown hit zero, all programming became Orwellian, straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with abundant newspeak and a still photo of Orson Welles as the face of Big Brother, glaring sternly from your "telescreen".
Eric Williams: Right Like Me
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As the countdown begins for the release of the magazine this summer, inshallah, your support shall be valuable.
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The mental countdown continued in his head: four, three, two, one.
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You entered in your thousands - and now the countdown is on to announce the winner of a fabulous holiday cottage in Whitby.
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In the countdown to war, the aluminium tubes remained in the political spotlight and the fight between the US intelligence agencies was now on in earnest.
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All the while, we watch as a nuclear bomb starts a countdown to zero.
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Dr. Kraft worked to develop the countdown, launch, and flight procedures, as well as the design of Mission Control itself at the Cape and later in Houston.
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Only a countdown on the complex control panel offered an indication of when impact was due.
Times, Sunday Times
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How do you like this rib-tickler from Leckie, on why the SSP's manifesto went unbudgeted: ‘This isn't Countdown and I'm not Carol Vorderman.‘
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Patients with earlier diagnosis may appear to survive longer, because of the earlier countdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Living as I do in mainland Europe, every day of the past few months has been a countdown to the Euro.
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Changeable Date Countdown Clock - Let your website's visitor choose the date.
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Yet in what is now an election countdown, ending such protections will be fiendishly difficult.
Times, Sunday Times
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In order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moonlanding, a Furby will be tied to rockets, a countdown will be made and we'll livestream its launching, in a happening taking place in a very crowded square.
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This should serve as a timely warning to all as the countdown to Hallowe'en continues.
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Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:
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Countdown to complete mental breakdown by Micheletti and his dwindling core of supporters (and, yes, that includes a grouplet of US expats that have been blogging constant disinformation from Honduras - their self-delusion and dishonesty to all is now crashing on the rocks of reality, too).
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Also, ignore everything DC does with Kamandi today, all the Tommy Tomorrow/Countdown ect. ect. nonsense benday-dot
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NASA has stopped the countdown for the space shuttle mission because of technical problems.
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A series of meetings will take place Thursday to discuss the problem and determine the steps necessary to get back into the launch countdown.
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More and more of a crowd began to enter the room, stuffing the whole area and turning it into a claustrophobic matchbox as the final countdown began.
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NASA has stopped the countdown for the space shuttle mission because of technical problems.
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Allison smiled as she watched the five-minute countdown activate on the monitor.
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A clock now marks the countdown to the one-year anniversary.
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As the countdown continued and the ritual of docile thanatopsis became more intense, Matt and Emily began to edge away from their half-mesmerized guards, pushing Eve in the antigrav chair and keeping close to the outer ring of lepidos.
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TRENTON - Dozens of Trenton police officers, firefighters, and civilian employees received layoff notices yesterday, starting a 45-day countdown to mass terminations Oct. 22.
New Jersey Real-Time News
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As the countdown to war continues Britain can be expected to contribute at least 12,000 troops as well as RAF, Navy and Special Forces units.
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Whiteley never missed a single episode of Countdown until he was admitted to hospital last month suffering from pneumonia.
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While people are taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers, the countdown to war is inexorably proceeding.
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The countdown began and with a war yawp Patton blasted into the sky.
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So now we begin the final countdown.
The Sun
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The countdown was stopped when a problem was detected in the computer dialogue between the control center and the launcher.
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Olbermann's show Countdown, which screened at 8pm and repeated at 11pm, was the network's top-rated programme.
Keith Olbermann abruptly dropped by NBC | Richard Adams
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The Danish three-masted full-rigged training ship ‘Georg Stage’ arrived in Waterford on Tuesday, June 15, and will remain berthed on the city's quays until Friday as the countdown continues to Tall Ships' Race 2005.
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Recently, the impregnable force field surrounding this device began to display a countdown clock that suggested it would deliver its message at noon yesterday.
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A computer monitor ran a countdown silently, reading ‘3: 40,’ and was dropping fast.
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The computer beeped a countdown from five to zero, and wooden spheres appeared and swooped down to try to hit the user.
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The app code is also available on Launchpad: - bzr branch lp: ~sushkov/ubuntu-website/ubuntu-countdown-fb
Ubuntu 10.04 Countdown banner for facebook
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The stag films, promotional and training material, B-movie condensations, countdown leaders, newsreels and intertitles he uses operate as commentary rather than as entertainment.
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The countdown to Christmas starts here.
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We are fast approaching the countdown to our big event.
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From behind me Ben shouted out a countdown, and then began his eight beat introduction.
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This illogical logic is really quite enjoyable sometimes, especially with Whack-a-Troll. everytime i see wasserman-shultz on the news programs i want to proposed marriage to her. the way she called bobby swindal out last night on countdown was classic. eyeball roll and all. tombaker Says:
Think Progress
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The best is a digital countdown timer, but any watch or one-minute sand timer will do.
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In Florida today, NASA beginning its countdown for the first space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster more than two years ago.
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These changes will provide the base before the intensity switches to the athletes for the final 18-month countdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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The countdown has begun for Atlantis to lift off Thursday.
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The three-day event allows the crew to practice prelaunch activities, including launch pad safety training and a countdown dress rehearsal.
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Once the countdown reached zero the cart began to move, accelerating rather rapidly.
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Representatives of the Argent Dawn, the in-game NPC faction responsible for combatting "the Scourge" the Undead quickly established "healers" in capital cities who destroyed proximal zombies and cured proximal players and NPCs afflicted with the 10-min countdown debuff.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Speaking of zombies
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Selecting kilometres will give you a countdown in metres - you can't have a mixture of both.
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Once the countdown reached zero the cart began to move, accelerating rather rapidly.
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A chronograph, a countdown timer and dual-time zone readings flesh out its functions.
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And while the manga category is again dominated by Naruto, in seven of the 10 spots, the paperback list has a couple of noteworthy entries in the second and third spots: IDW's move prequel Star Trek: Countdown, and Drawn & Quarterly's Yoshihiro Tatsumi autobiography A Drifting Life.
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Wrapped up in blankets, beanies, long leggings and anything else to keep warm, some runners grumbled when the countdown to the start began and they had to get rid of the warm gear.
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Selecting kilometres will give you a countdown in metres - you can't have a mixture of both.
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Countdown" was a smart, progressive refuge and a reliable rebuke to rival Fox News Channel pundits where Olbermann would chronicle the day's events, interview guests, deliver blistering commentaries in filigreed prose, needle hand-picked scoundrels (as in his Worst Persons fixture), and wrap the whole package with literate trappings and pop-culture wit (his readings from James Thurber short stories were a regular feature).
Keith Olbermann: Current TV Will Be All News In Prime Time
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Every day for over a month on the front page of the paper, right next to the masthead, they publish a countdown to the start of the World Cup.
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The practice countdown capped the week's Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, in which flight crew members went through launch pad safety training and other prelaunch activities.
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The progress of time is paced by weekly fire and boat drills and the countdown of dive days remaining.
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The countdown to glory began and it almost reached zero.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just don't expect to see me out there before the final countdown.
The Sun
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He was forced to redraft this advice as the countdown to war continued.
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The countdown has begun for the launch later today of the American space shuttle.
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Princess organised a huge celebration with a live band, fireworks and the countdown all taking place out at sea in the balmy Caribbean air.
The Sun
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Countdown to the cruise Mark Hewish Going to war with cruise missiles would be precise, ruthless and utterly effective.
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With just 12 weeks to go until the Oscars, the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association awards mark the start of the countdown to the showpiece event.
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Many will conduct what they call saturation patrols starting at half-time and continued past the final countdown of the game clock.
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But he has been persuaded to take questions on his feet and be subjected to a countdown timer.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was most definitely the final countdown.
Times, Sunday Times
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And now they have to go through the whole series of checklists that are involved in the countdown.
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As a way of reminding and motivating students, you can see chalked on blackboards in most classrooms, countdowns of the days to the examination and some encouraging words.
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The countdown begins in December.
Times, Sunday Times
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But with the electoral countdown ticking away, his government badly needs to pull itself out of a hole.
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I will never employ any device with a digital countdown.
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The teacher, psychologist Vic Witherman, was an expert in what he called countdown profiling.
Call to Treason
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When all of these steps have been completed, a complete dress rehearsal of the final days of the countdown and liftoff is conducted.
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The countdown will resume at the beginning of next week.
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The chart countdown, performed yesterday by Bruno Brookes, is one of Radio One's most popular shows.
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So the countdown begins in earnest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only time shutdown - a comes in handy is when there's a countdown timer on screen, started by Windows.
How To Stop Windows From Shutting Down | Lifehacker Australia
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-- much of which he gets from far-left sources like Media Matters for America and Think Progress -- on Friday's Countdown show accused FNC's Brit Hume of making a "dumbfounding" admission that "he was fed a buffet of daily talking points" by the "lunatic fringe, right wing" Media Research Center, which the MSNBC host identified as a Web site "run by the perpetually angry Brent Bozell.
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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For example, the Datalink comes with a chronograph, countdown timer, interval timer, multiple alarms and even a notepad.
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I'm talking about the games that suddenly impose a countdown on a level; the type of countdown you get in stupid action films, where the goodie has to defuse the bomb before it detonates.
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Leave the real work to the next generation because yours already has screwed up this country enough with your power grabbing. btw, everyone should watch Keith's special comment about Bush on countdown. if you don't know what that is just type in "countdown" in google.
'President' McCain looks four years down the road
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As the countdown to the concert begins, one innocent young man must navigate a minefield of London drug smuggles, New York City brawls and Vegas lap dances to deliver his charge safe and, sort of, sound … all while trying to remain faithful to his med student girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss).
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Moreover, as a supplement to the blinking lights that usually accompany the self-timer feature built into many cameras, the front screen shows off an easy-to-see countdown.
Samsung unveils dual-screen cameras
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The White House stood shrouded in weekend quiet, but the countdown to war was continuing.
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She touched a button on her wristwatch starting a countdown timer.
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In the countdown to Christmas a host of events are planned, including a new Children's Fair from November 18 to 20 in and around Parliament Street.
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But there's a lot of pressure at the moment with the countdown to this UN deadline, also to try and resolve the issue of peacekeepers as well.
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One of my faves is The Final Countdown which sent my imagination spinning in junior high school.
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Points standings (x — clinched spot in countdown to No. 1)
NHRA Northwest Nationals results
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Princess organised a huge celebration with a live band, fireworks and the countdown all taking place out at sea in the balmy Caribbean air.
The Sun
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The channel, which is finally adding a new show at 10PM (in place of the "Countdown" repeat), is also shaking up dayside.
MSNBC's New Anchor Lineup
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I notice a digital countdown projected below the Napoleon-guy: 1.69, and quickly descending.
