31.   If not for Krajicek, Pete might be trying to make history this fortnight, instead of spending most of it merely marking time.

32.   In the era of tall ships, the bell was the soul of shipboard life, marking time and setting rhythms.

33.   In the alternate world of hotels, time is marked by the change in the plaque honoring the employee of the month.

34.   In the emergency room, the rhythmic wheeze of ventilators marks time against the endless whine of buzz saws.

35.   Laurence Fishburne was marking time with a featured character role on the program, waiting for his big-screen career to take off.

36.   Now we mark time with records.

37.   Now the economy seems to be marking time.

38.   On a slightly more grand scale is the sistrum used to mark time in an Ethiopian Orthodox Church service.

39.   Now, though, it appears the replacements merely are marking time before an agreement is reached or the regulars come back without one.

40.   Saturday morning, House members marked time at their rhetorical oars with campaign themes while their leaders privately negotiated.