behind time
Example Sentences
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They will be able to visit at Tardis tech room, and look at the science behind time travel and ask whether it is really possible.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
It will be the 27th occasion the NPL has brought in a leap second to ensure that time based on the Earth’s rotation does not lag behind time kept by atomic clocks.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2016
A former senior executive with Shell, Benard inherited a project running behind time and over budget with banks threatening to withdraw the funding needed to keep it afloat.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2016
Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a perfect July morning, and at 8.39 the shrill whistle sounded, worked by the conductor’s bell-rope, and we were off, nine minutes behind time on account of some trouble with the air-brakes.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various
