Sentence examples for noun time from inspiring English sources

Whorf claimed that they didn't have any words for time – no direct translation for the noun time itself, no grammatical constructions indicating the past or future – and therefore could not conceive of it.

Apostrophes are used in phrases such as two days' time and 12 years' jail, where the time period (two days) modifies a noun (time), but not in three weeks old or nine months pregnant, where the time period (three weeks) modifies an adjective (old).

Use apostrophes in phrases such as two days' time, 12 years' imprisonment and six weeks' holiday, where the time period (two days) modifies a noun (time), but not in nine months pregnant or three weeks old, where the time period is adverbial (modifying an adjective such as pregnant or old) – if in doubt, test with a singular such as one day's time, one month pregnant.

In "any time," you have a noun, "time," and another word modifying it.

The number one most common noun was time.

I have even been trolled (is it a verb?), but I'd never given the Trollers (a noun?) the time of day -- because what they say is usually a bunch of mumbo jumbo that's easily dismissed.

Although the depressed participants found it more difficult to generate images (e.g. 2.61 seconds for mean high-imagery noun generation time in the control group, compared to 4.43 seconds in the participants with depression), the two groups did not differ in the duration of images generated.

EXIT itself is a borrowing from Latin as a noun at some time prior to 1564 and according to the OED, it is borrowed as a noun of action from two formations (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY "exit, v. and n". OED Online.

ERPs (1000 ms epochs) were quantified by mean amplitude measures after the onset of the critical word (direct object noun) for different time windows (TW): the ELAN from 100 to 300 ms, the N400 from 300 to 500 ms and the P600 from 800 to 1000 ms relative to the 100 ms prestimulus baseline.

In order to locate the possible neural source of the lexical effect for unrelated words, two separate swLORETA source reconstructions were performed on the difference-waves obtained by subtracting the ERPs to related common (or proper) nouns from those elicited by unrelated common (or proper) nouns in the time window 360 400 ms, representing the peak of N400 in the difference waves.

Mr. Gore used "fight," or derivative verb and noun forms, 23 times.