1.   Investors are Marking time, waiting for evidence that the Market is growing.

2.   Of course the primary years Mark a time when children must master language.

3.   The clock apparently Marks time by carrying out a predictable and elaborate process of synthesizing and destroying molecules within living cells.

4.   I was just marking time until a better job came up.

5.   They are simply marking time, waiting for fashion futures to be decided elsewhere.

6.   Gaultier has remained true to himself, and must therefore mark time until fashion comes back around to his idiosyncratic viewpoint.

7.   Another thing Carruth did for the first time this year is observe Lent, the time before Easter marked by somber observance and sacrifice.

8.   At the Saddam Airport, he and other workers are simply marking time.

9.   Big Blue, the cornerstone and pillar of New York football establishment, is cutting down but marking time.