Example sentences of "[prep] tell the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 2 | As Southern has remarked , this passage , only part of which I have quoted , illustrates the difficulties encountered in those days of telling the time and Walcher 's anxiety for precision in seeking to establish the exact correlation between the phases of the moon and the solar calendar . |
| 3 | Also known as ‘ mass clocks ’ they offered a means of telling the time for church services : an appropriately placed stick cast a shadow on the hour-scale . |
| 4 | Learning how we measure time is something that could link effectively with cross-curricular work on telling the time , learning about the calendar and the seasons . |
| 5 | Functional rather than ostentatious , for telling the time rather than for telling others who he was . |