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behind time







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belatedly
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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

His stage had been behind time in leaving Hanford, and as a consequence I had beaten him to the Pasco landing by ten minutes.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)




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