ACT Vocabulary: Time and Change

The library book sale is perennial and has returned every April for more than twenty years.

The clinic lights went from on to off in a sudden way, with no slow fade.

The neighborhood fair is biennial, held in 2024 and next in 2026, not in the year between.

A lingering cough kept the student home from school for three weeks after the fever had ended.

A subsequent clinic visit was set for the Monday after the first one.

During the interim between the two library workshops, the room stayed locked for an hour.

A perpetual lamp at the clinic desk stays lit through every day and every night.

The sidewalk chalk drawing was ephemeral and had faded before the next school day.

The clinic noted a transient rash that appeared at noon and was gone by evening.

The library roof leak was chronic, dripping from March straight through June.

The clinic called the sore throat momentary because it started at night and cleared within a few days.

Library hours changed in a gradual way, fifteen minutes later each month.

An imminent inspection had the clinic expecting visitors within the hour.

The impending library move is set for the coming Monday.

The nurse read the former chart, the one written before today's visit.

Library notes from the latter 1990s come from the closing years of that decade.

The diary and a contemporary newspaper were both written in the same year, 1910.

The school keeps an ancient atlas that was drawn several centuries ago.

The library catalog still prints an archaic word that everyday speech dropped long ago.

That clinic form is obsolete and has not been handed out for many years.

The school paper is nascent, with its first issue still only a plan.

The vintage of the library map is 1924, the year it was printed.

The antique press in the library was built in the eighteenth century.

The library keeps current magazines in front and stores older issues downstairs.

At present the clinic is open only in the morning.

In the past the school day ended at two.

The library is saving funds for a future addition, one not built yet.

The recent clinic note was written yesterday.

Librarians call the first hour of the day the prime of the school day.

The terminal week is the last week of school and is set aside for exams.

The final meeting of the workshop comes after six earlier meetings.

The initial meeting of the clinic volunteers is on Monday, before any later meeting.

The ultimate meeting of the reading group is the one that closes the year.

The clinic checkup was overdue, planned for March and still not done in May.

The bus to the clinic was punctual and pulled up at the minute shown on the sign.

A premature closing shut the library an hour before the posted time.

The timetable of clinic events names a screening in April and a follow-up in July.

A generation, about thirty years, passed between the old gym and the new one.

The new borrowing rule was a watershed, and the years after it were unlike the years before.

The clinic posted the lab result in the immediate minute after the test, with no waiting.

The library move is pending, set for next month, and has not happened yet.

This provisional pass lasts only until June.

The temporary clinic entrance will be used for three weeks and then shut.

The permanent exhibit stays in the library lobby and is not removed when the year ends.

At this juncture, halfway through March, the library adds late hours.

The chalk notes were evanescent: clear at first, they could not be read an hour later.

The protracted repair kept the library entrance shut for fourteen months.

The abbreviated assembly ran for ten minutes instead of the usual hour.

The abridged edition omits later chapters so the class can finish the book within one month.

The truncated semester ended in April instead of June.

The new clinic hours apply hereafter, from this Monday onward.

The clinic fan made a continuous hum all night, never stopping once.

The afternoon was full of continual announcements, with a few quiet minutes between them.

The intermittent alarm sounded, went quiet, and sounded again through the afternoon.

The clinic held sporadic drills in March and in October, with quiet months between them.

The periodic inventory of clinic supplies is taken every three months.

The hallway lights went out for an instant and came back within the same second.

The two reading classes are concurrent and meet during the same class hour.

The fire drill and the alarm were synchronous and started together at one shared second.

The pages stand in sequence, with page one before page two and page two before page three.

The succession of library directors runs from the first in 1950 to the one serving now.

The library printed the story as a serial, with one new chapter each month.

Clinic talks are set as a series, one Monday after another for six weeks.

The library stayed shut on consecutive days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

In the library log, Tuesday is the sequel to Monday, the day that comes next.

The first cloudy hours were a prelude to a full day of rain.

A short quiz was the antecedent of the unit test and was given the week before it.

The small reading room was a precursor of the full library and opened years before that larger building.

Early buds on the schoolyard tree are a harbinger of warmer weeks ahead.

The one-room schoolhouse was a forerunner of the larger school that opened years later.

The librarian now serving followed a predecessor who stopped work in May of the year before.

The successor to the retiring librarian begins in the week after the retirement.

In the aftermath of the drill, the school stayed in the gym for the next hour.

The library shut for a hiatus of three months and then opened its doors again.

A quiet interlude of fifteen minutes fell between the two clinic lectures.

After a lapse of three months, the student picked up a new library card.

The clinic study covered a stretch of four years.

A rainy spell kept the neighborhood book drop shut for a week.

Her Saturday duty at the library runs from nine in the morning until one in the afternoon.

The night watch at the clinic desk runs from ten at night until six in the morning.

His stint at the clinic desk lasted two weeks and then ended.

A bout of coughing lasted through the whole clinic visit.

Her incumbency as a library aide ran from September through May.

The nurse is on leave for two weeks and comes back to the clinic when those weeks end.

The clinic test got a reprieve and was moved from Monday to Friday.

A delay of twenty minutes made the library program start later than planned.

A lag of two days comes between the ordering of a library book and its arrival.

A ten-minute interval separated the two library workshops.

A pause of several minutes came before the next student walked into the clinic.

The library announced a suspension of late hours for the next two weeks.

The clinic noted a remission, and the rash stayed gone for several months.

After two healthy weeks, a relapse of the cough brought the student back to the clinic.

Library card renewal gives the card one more year of valid use.

The student received an extension and may hand the paper in two days after the old due day.

The clinic set a moratorium of six months on optional tours.

The advent of late-day library hours began on the first Monday in May.

The onset of late-day library hours was the first night those hours began.

A library card reaches expiration on the last day it may be used.

The school savings bond reaches maturity on a set day two years after it is bought.

The dawn of the school year brings new library cards during the first week.

In the twilight of the card catalog, the library kept using it for only one more year.

The library schedule lists dusk as the locking time, when daylight hours end.

The library set a date in March for the book sale.

Students may borrow the atlas once they reach age fourteen.

During the eve of the move, in the week before the clinic changed rooms, staff packed boxes.

The room stayed quiet for a moment before the clinic drill began.

School intermission runs for twenty minutes between the morning classes.