The phrase "as if it passed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that seems to have occurred or been experienced, often in a hypothetical or reflective context.
Example: "She looked at the clock, as if it passed in a blur during the long meeting."
Alternatives: "as though it had gone by" or "as if it had elapsed".
Next year DuPont will introduce a fabric that can temporarily imprison offensive scents -- so that, say, a shirt that spent the night in a smoke-filled bar will arrive home at 5 a.m. smelling as if it passed the hours in a spring meadow.
Seen in hindsight, time slows down when you're in a state of great excitement; and looking back on the boredom of pot-watching, the absence of emotional peaks makes an incident seem as if it passed in an instant, says David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.
A gene was identified as differentially expressed if it passed a false discovery rate of ≤ 0.05 and had a fold change of ≥ 2, or passed a false discovery rate ≤ 0.001 and a fold change of ≥ 1.5.
The output point and the length of the path are evaluated as if it passes straight through the block.
An EST sequence would be considered as a potential target if it passes the criteria used in Rhoades et al. [ 22, 35]: (1) the number of mismatches (including G U pair [ 36]) between sequence of potential miRNA candidate and its complementary site on the EST is fewer than 4, and (2) there is no gap in the complementary site.
After data quality control and cross-reference validation, we consider a peptide as truly reliable only if it passes at least one of the following two criteria: identified by both search engines, or conserved in other species other than homo sapiens (for splicing peptides only).
On "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Ms. Davis said she and other state Democrats would keep battling against the abortion bill and said even if it passes, as many analysts expect, "obviously there will be challenges to it going forward".
If it passes, as expected, it will be President Donald Trump's first major legislative triumph.
If it passes, as seems likely due to the government's majority in Congress, his determination in the face of the shock result seems to have paid off.
A measure to extend the Measure R sales-tax hike will likely appear on the ballot in 2014 or 2016; if it passes, as it probably will, work on the region's most crucial transit projects will accelerate.
"I do not regard it as the unraveling of Dodd-Frank if it passes," he said.
