count down
verb- To announce the passage of time to a precisely timed expected event. · The sound system counted down the seconds to meteor impact.
- To await a precisely timed expected event. · The party was counting down the days to Inauguration.
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The council could pay only a modest fee, she added, but the clock had to be running by New Year's Eve, when the town gathered in the square to count down to midnight.
That night the brothers stood side by side in the tower, listening to the town count down and then to the old bell striking twelve.
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