Stoppage

A soccer match lasts 90 minutes, without considering stoppage time.

There's a difference in the duration of a football match between normal time and stoppage time.

"What's the score?" "We're one-nil down." "How long left?" "Ten minutes plus stoppage time." "They'd better pull their finger out, then."

The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!

The brakes were specially developed by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company to provide smooth stoppages under automatic operation.

A "who-does-what" labour dispute at Swindon works during April led to a stoppage of work on the construction of the new 0-6-0 Type 1 diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the D9500 series and work had not been resumed as we closed for press.

The laws are controversial. Forcing someone to work during a lawful strike is a major step. It was always likely to inflame a situation, and so it proved with LNER. ASLEF's counter-tactic came as a five-day walkout, which would have been the longest stoppage for many years had LNER not withdrawn its plan.