Others were simply marking time until the day they would add to the number at the town cemetery.

Or simply mark the beginning of a new one?

United Nations officials say they are simply marking the border and will not build a fence.

But don't feel that you are simply marking time.

The previous approach of simply marking time and only giving the illusion that progress was being made has come to an end.

They are simply marking time, waiting for fashion futures to be decided elsewhere.

Some of the big international stocks were marked higher simply in response to Wall Street's progress.

The songs simply marked some of the stranger episodes in Tommy's life.

At the Saddam Airport, he and other workers are simply marking time.

However, a panel that merely tells the Mayor what his health commissioner already knows is simply marking time.