The phrase "bid time" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to wait or pass time until a future event or opportunity arises. Example: "While they bid time for their flight, the passengers browsed the duty-free shops at the airport."
"O, CALL back yesterday, bid time return".
In a preface, she quotes Shakespeare -- "O! call back yesterday, bid time return" -- to explain why she has culled her diaries and added explanatory notes to construct a chronological narrative of their affair and subsequent marriage.
Bid Time Return (1975), in which a man travels through time to pursue the subject of a 19th-century portrait, was filmed as Somewhere in Time in 1980 with Christopher Reeve.
After the sheer pleasure of Powers, I'm wondering if, next, I should return to my original plan of reading through the World Fantasy Award/British Fantasy award winners … which would mean it'd be a choice of Richard Matheson's Bid Time Return or more Michael Moorcock.
O Thou who made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, —Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raised to them and Thee.
After all the talk at bid time of legacy, not to have secured a clear one for the stadium at this point is an uncomfortable reality for the stakeholder.
The event crosses paths with the 11-mile 2016 Olympic-bid time trial route — a course Cieslewicz hopes will see a competitive race next year.
At bidding time, criteria such as generator characteristics and market price uncertainties that have a direct effect on the expected profit and the supply curve must be considered.
It can be customized to include single auctions that come with the standard price, bids, time left, feedback and high bidder.
There are variations to the original doctrine of concealing capacities and bidding time, however, Deng had also provided that when opportunity arise, China should be "you suo zuo wei" (有所作為; proactive and make achievements).
"I have had a number of SMEs that said 'we did not bid first time around because we wanted to see what it was like, but we will want to bid second time around'".
