11.   These concerns will become more pressing as the clock ticks toward the next elections.

12.   What is going to change after the clocks tick off the millennium?

13.   While a clock ticks down to showtime, dancing hot dogs and rope-jumping ice cream bars drive patrons toward concession stands.

14.   While the clock ticks, up to four players can take turns fielding questions in geography, history and science, and competing against one another or against themselves.

15.   A top U.N official expressed dismay Wednesday at growing war preparations in Croatia as the clock ticks on a withdrawal of peacekeepers separating restive rebel Serbs and government troops.

16.   American Airlines has indicated it will sweeten its contract offer to flight attendants as the clock ticks toward a possible strike, according to a published report.

17.   He uncovers a bizarre chain of evidence that unravels at the highest levels of government, as the clock ticks away on his life.

18.   San Lorenzo immediately slowed the pace, worked the ball around and let the clock tick down, as Flamengo desperately tried to regroup.

19.   So it goes in Hong Kong as clocks tick toward Chinese rule.

20.   There have been widespread public fears that it might not be safe to be in the air as the clock ticks to midnight at the turn of the millennium.