11.   A chiming clock marks time, one imagines, for some cozy household ritual yet to occur.

12.   A bell tower and drum tower mark times for ceremonies.

13.   All fall there has been a sense in the capital of marking time, fiddling with side issues while waiting for the next big national agenda to come along.

14.   But instead of marking time over the winter, as Western diplomats hoped, both sides have been upping the ante.

15.   But in the Rio Grande Valley, as in most agricultural areas, time is marked by the last weather disaster.

16.   But nearly everyone in Russia thinks he is merely marking time before taking over the reins completely.

17.   But the supply eventually ran short, and the episodes involving organized crime and munitions racketeers seemed merely to be marking time.

18.   Carlin seems to be marking time in a thanklessly underwritten role.

19.   Cloth marked time, told stories, announced rank and placated enemies.

20.   Colored bars mark times filled, and notes may be made and to-do lists constructed with priorities for each task.