"breathing time" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean a period of time in which one takes a break or relaxes. For example, "I'm so busy these days, sometimes I need to take a few moments of breathing time to just gather my thoughts."
His recent stage productions include The Parisian Woman (South Coast Rep, 2013) and Breathing Time (Fault Line Theatre, 2014).
Now you might have thought I would have wanted some breathing time between Platonovs, or whatever they call themselves.
"Everybody is going back to re-examine what is happening because we have finally got some breathing time," said a W.H.O.
And now they had scarcely got a breathing time from their trouble, when a new war came upon them; and the Aequians, Volscians, and Latins all at once invaded their territories, and the Tuscans besieged Sutrium, their confederate city.
Not that there's no shade; breathing time comes in Gyllenhaal's claustrophobic solo scenes that inescapably recall Moon (fraying astronaut Sam Rockwell psycho-battles a computer voiced by Kevin Spacey).
Kirby and McGrigor have developed a pet phrase for skaters who build in obvious breathing time during their routines: "He's pulling off the highway into the rest area, driving past the picnic table".
For those of us who remember the home-cooked meal, computer generated "music" will never replace (or equal) the great sound of the acoustic bass in jazz, the high-lonesome fiddle sound in bluegrass and country music or the playfully impulsive "snap, crackle, pop" and "breathing" time-keeping of the jazz and rock 'n' roll drummer.
Relationships between the breathing times, distances away from smokers and inhaled content of nicotine are clarified.
The TARDIS will be taking time out from the set so fans can enjoy a closer look at the Doctor's living and breathing, time-travelling machine.
Think of your typical vendor as a living, breathing time-lapse camera, attuned to subtleties we don't stick around long enough to notice.
"Norfolk – fresh air to breathe, time to hate" has a nice ring to it.
