In samples from the bottom of the Mediterranean, researchers counted up to 1.9 million tiny pieces of plastic per square meter in mud from the Tyrrhenian Basin, west of Italy.
Then the cake and ice cost more than Amy expected, so did the wagon, and various other expenses, which seemed trifling at the outset, counted up rather alarmingly afterward.
It has something inside that wobbles at a very precise rate, all any clock does is count up those wobbles and convert them into a unit that we actually understand.