The Jets' (8-8) defense was stout through three quarters, but couldn't get off the field during a 21-play, 94-yard Miami drive in the fourth, when the Dolphins (6-10) ate more than 12 minutes of clock time and finished with a touchdown to take a 13-10 lead.
This kind of urgency carries over to fiction, where a ticking clock a sense of time running out can make the pages seem to snap by with the speed of a second hand.
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The little creature's also got four additional touch sensors, a temperature sensor, a gravity sensor and an internal clock to tell the time of day, improved motors, and basic voice recognition -- and the Hong Kong packaging suggests the dinos will even come in two different sexes.
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Any demand for more evidence comes to be seen as dangerous, a waste of time while the clock counts down to possible doom.
His realization was that the solution wouldn't come from improved astronomical readings, as many thinkers believed, but from an extremely accurate clock that could tell the time of the home port while at sea.
By the end of the first lap he was already two seconds up on the leading time and went on to clock a series of sub-30 seconds laps as he moved with grace and power across the ice.
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As a sport played without a clock, a baseball game occurs out of time.
Shortly after 9 he quietly slipped out, opting to skip a performance by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson in the interest of keeping his body clock on Moscow time.
The veteran keeper kept his side in the game with seven minutes of normal time on the clock as he brilliantly turned away Srna's free-kick after Petric had been fouled on the edge of the area.
The workings of most chips are governed by a clock and the data processing they do advances with each tick of that time-keeper.
Now that we can eat whenever we want to, and change our eating patterns at will, the food clock has a harder time staying on top of things.
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The one source, perplexed by this reasoning, questioned the expertise of some of those in the room who said they coached football, wondering if they understood the time constraints of the play clock.
As the clock ticked well into the fifth minute of injury time the ball was passed back to Evans and, with the last kick of the match, the New Zealander scudded a low drop-goal between the posts.
This means a huge amount of work often around the clock by teams of people with nothing to show for it for years at a time, if ever.
Two-time world champion Alonso braved the testing morning weather to clock the best lap of one minute 25.252 seconds with teammate Massa setting the second quickest time.
"Because mutations start occurring at regular intervals in these genes as soon as a new species evolves - like the ticking of a clock - we can use them to trace the evolutionary history of a species back to its time of origin, " said Dr Hedges.
"There are four lanes, each with a different clock, " commented another long-time observer of these tortuous talks.
During this time of round-the-clock coverage of the events in Libya, Hurricane Irene, and the roller-coaster stock market, this news got only short mention in the media.
At bottom it is a bid to turn back the clock to the time when Labour seemed capable of being a force for meaningful change.
Jerrold Zacharias at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a practical atomic clock around the same time that Louis Essen and John Parry established the first atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, west of London.
None of us have the luxury of finding more time by simply turning back the clock except when Daylight Saving Time ends.
The rest of the time, inmates are holed up round the clock, eating, sleeping, and going slightly crazy.
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Curiously absent from this scenario was the fact that the players wear full uniforms with pads and protection, play a game under a time clock, out in the open, in front of family and fans.
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Conforming states would love to rewind the clock to a time prior to the 2002 through 2004 phase out of the federal state death tax credit, and prior to the 2005 elimination of that credit.
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Leicester Cathedral clock underwent last-minute repairs to enable it to time the start of the silence.
Built-in dolls come out of the clock at noon each day to dance around and tell the time.
Ferguson and Manchester United knew the prospect was looming of Beckham allowing the clock to tick on his next deal and it was time to cash in.
Although it would be a great thing to be able to step out of time and read a book and then turn the clock back on and design its cover, in reality, it probably works better this way.
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Some of the research in mice indicates that the master clock typically adjusts to a new time zone after around three days.
But even with the clock ticking, the Gang of 16 has two opponents perhaps even more formidable than Father Time: Big Oil and environmentalists.
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