Part 4 - Academic Lecture
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Complete the sentences below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Word limit: ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
Before the railways, towns set their clocks by the position of the ______.
Bristol time was about ______ minutes behind London time.
In 1840 the Great Western Railway began using London time in its ______ and stations.
The clock on Bristol's Corn Exchange has two minute ______.
From the 1850s, time signals were sent from Greenwich by ______.
By 1855, almost all public ______ in Britain showed Greenwich time.
Greenwich Mean Time became Britain's ______ time in 1880.
In the USA, 18 November 1883 was called 'the day of two ______'.
Standard time in the USA was introduced by the railways and not by the ______.
Today, time is kept by ______ clocks.
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