behind time
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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
Ketling came as he had promised; he was not behind time one moment.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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