'hidden time' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a period or moment of time that has been previously overlooked or remains invisible to most people. For example: "We often overlook the hidden time spent by caregivers providing support to those with disabilities."
THE report also takes note of what may be hidden time bombs.
So the panel agrees there's opportunity for the long term but plenty of hidden time bombs that could create short-term problems.
Maybe we should stop saying "flame retardant chemicals" and start calling them what they are: hidden time bombs.
Kazan was like a hidden time bomb set to wait its time and then explode.
For anyone over 30, these songs are like hidden time bombs, drilled into the consciousness in the days when a single's shelf life wasn't weeks but months.
"This concentration of wealth and influence could be a hidden time bomb under India's social fabric," warned the authors of the US-based Emerging Markets Forum.
"In New York, there can also be hidden time-of-the-essence clauses written into a contract," Mr. Hall said, explaining some courts have ruled that using the words "on or before Sept. 1" constitutes a time-is-of-the-essence clause and binds both parties to closing on that date.
Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck.
We presented group-living and solitary barnacles with a simulated threat and measured hiding time with the prediction that barnacles in groups would return to foraging more quickly than solitary barnacles.
All playbacks were scored in JWatcher 1.0 (Blumstein and Daniel 2007) with the following ethogram: vigilance (looking in a quadrapedal, bipedal, or lying position), hiding (time spent in burrow), locomotion, foraging, self-grooming, social interactions, and out of sight.
But those modifying sentences were hidden behind Time's paywall, so many non-subscribers didn't see them.
