times

See:
  • a sign of the times
  • at all times
  • at the best of times
  • at times
  • bad times
  • be a sign of the times
  • be behind the times
  • be in tune with the times
  • behind the times
  • change with the times
  • Cowards die many times before their death
  • cowards die many times before their death(s)
  • desperate times call for desperate measures
  • desperate times require desperate measures
  • different times, different manners
  • difficult times
  • drastic times call for drastic measures
  • drastic times require drastic measures
  • even in the best of times
  • face time
  • fall on hard times
  • for auld lang syne/for old times' sake
  • for old times' sake
  • get in tune with the times
  • get with the times
  • hard time
  • hard times
  • have been around the block a few times
  • high old time
  • How many times do I have to tell you?
  • if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times
  • if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times
  • in (one's) time
  • in between times
  • in times past
  • in tune with the times
  • keep in step with the times
  • keep up with the times
  • keep up, move, etc. with the times
  • lean times
  • let the good times roll
  • move with the times
  • moving three times is as bad as a fire
  • nine times out of ten
  • No, no, a thousand times no!
  • No, no, a thousand times, no!
  • other times, other manners
  • rare old time
  • serve (one's) time
  • sign of the times
  • sign of the times, a
  • the time of (one's) life
  • the times (they) are a-changin(g)
  • time in
  • time out
  • times are changing
  • times are out of joint, the
  • times change
  • Times change and we with time
  • times change, and we with time
  • times have changed
  • time's up
  • tough times
  • trying times
  • two-time
  • uptime
References in classic literature
I wished to follow her, and would have done so had not Montesinos recommended me not to take the trouble as it would be useless, particularly as the time was drawing near when it would be necessary for me to quit the cavern.
Before she had recovered from the pain and rage this caused her, the Princess had time to escape, and was some way on her road.
If she was 'im she'd join the union, the last time there was a strike she was expectin' 'im to be brought back in an ambulance every time he went out.
During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write.
I fancy, also, that I must by this time have read the Odyssey, for the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" was in the second volume, and it took me so much that I paid it the tribute of a bald imitation in a mock-heroic epic of a cat fight, studied from the cat fights in our back yard, with the wonted invocation to the Muse, and the machinery of partisan gods and goddesses.
`Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, `any real body must have extension in FOUR directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and--Duration.
Nor could this be done in the case of time, for none of the parts of time has an abiding existence, and that which does not abide can hardly have position.
But as time went on, as life became more easy, in one way or another the savage learned to become less savage.
If those traces were still all there, they showed that Mademoiselle Stangerson--who desired that nothing should be known --had not yet had time to clear them away.
This was the time for the rest of the Folk to have joined in.
Hence in all such cases, we should be unable to recognise the parent-form of any two or more species, even if we closely compared the structure of the parent with that of its modified descendants, unless at the same time we had a nearly perfect chain of the intermediate links.
From the time of our parting till their death we kept up a correspondence with the older members of the family, and in later years we have kept in touch with those who were the younger members.
And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the pæan of the bells - Of the bells: - Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells - To the sobbing of the bells: - Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells: - To the tolling of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
So that if we examine the case of a man whose connection with the external world is well known, where the time between the action and its examination is great, and where the causes of the action are most accessible, we get the conception of a maximum of inevitability and a minimum of free will.
If then the legislator ought to take care that the bodies of the children are as perfect as possible, his first attention ought to be given to matrimony; at what time and in what situation it is proper that the citizens should engage in the nuptial contract.