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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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NASA has stopped the countdown for the space shuttle mission because of technical problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the countdown reaches the two-minute mark, the room seems to tremble.
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Four seperate police forces are monitoring every traveller's vehicle in the four day countdown to midsummer.
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So the election countdown has effectively begun, though the poll probably will not be until May or June next year.
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The chart countdown , performed yesterday by Bruno Brookes, is one of Radio One's most popular shows.
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The progress of time is paced by weekly fire and boat drills and the countdown of dive days remaining.
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The shuttle's tanks have been filled by the time that the countdown reaches the 3 hours mark.