| 11. | The weeks tick by and nothing happens.
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| 12. | As the 20th, 40th, 60th hour ticks by, physical transformation wracks the participants.
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| 13. | Tick by tick a dazzling array of lifelike patterns unfolds, merging, dissolving, oscillating.
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| 14. | Even as the days steadily tick by, unmarred by further atrocities, the presentiment lingers.
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| 15. | "You're watching the moment by moment, tick by tick ."
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| 16. | Time ticks by as you try to correct the first transcription problem without introducing new ones.
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| 17. | Seconds tick by in the leafy midday shade of the Martyrs'Shrine war memorial overlooking the city.
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| 18. | Just a cruel, gnawing feeling of anticipation as the minutes of Election Day tick by one by one.
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| 19. | As the days tick by and help doesn't appear, Chuck slowly learns to fend for himself.
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| 20. | He is proven correct, as time ticks by, when Wilson finally cracks and agrees to pay the ransom.
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