1.   But it was there, at what was supposed to be the height of glory, that the doomsday clock began ticking on the organization.

2.   But the two-year clock does not begin ticking until Boeing finishes the design, something that is expected to happen later this year.

3.   Federal appeals courts, however, disagree about when the four-year clock begins ticking.

4.   For instance, two years after the clock began ticking, the scientists advanced the clock to three minutes before midnight.

5.   He said the four-year clock began eight years later, when NME admitted its guilt.

6.   Knowing to the minute when the clock began running helps physicians balance their time, and perhaps avoid extra charges that might make patients unhappy.

7.   Lawyers on both sides agreed that the clock began ticking when alleged abuse was first reported to law enforcement officials.

8.   One appeal was rejected, McVeigh withdrew another, the clock began ticking for McVeigh to die by lethal injection and Chambers was just about back on the sidelines.

9.   The clocks began appearing in department stores last fall.

10.   The court, citing federal patent law, said the clock begins not when an invention is finished but when it is substantially completed.