"oceans of time" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Generally, it is used to convey a great amount of time. For example, "We've been searching for solutions for oceans of time but never found a satisfactory answer."
They come from a nearby village, or across oceans of time.
Unlike any other radio station, however, Radio 3 remains a place where you can lose yourself in music; enjoying vast oceans of time without trails for forthcoming programmes, vox pops, endless mentions of Twitter or advertisements for Autoglass.
If you're not, then the time you've just spent trying to persuade them just gets added to the lost oceans of time you now spend doing stuff you would call "work" if it was ever actually paid for.
Gill emerged from his West Country clinic sober and beached; like all washed-up addicts, he needed something to fill the oceans of time and space that alcohol had once occupied.
The Pompey Supporters' Trust, fans who have devoted oceans of time to the battle for the soul of their club, remains the preferred bidder to buy it out of its second administration, against the intense, furious opposition of Balram Chainrai, a lender of money from Hong Kong.
But, all of a sudden, I have oceans of time -- and the ability to sleep through the night uninterrupted.
(Beside the Ocean of Time had been shortlisted, though the prize was won by another Scot, James Kelman).
His novels include Magnus (1973), Time in a Red Coat (1984), and Beside the Ocean of Time (1994); the last-mentioned was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
It's a message tossed into the ocean of time, and how we read that message, whether indifferently or with compassion, can have moral dimensions.
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown (shortlisted in 1994) and set on the Orkney Islands is the most northerly located book in Booker prize history.
The warrior appears to be a manifestation of her fury, something called up from the depths of the ocean, of time and of her own psyche, in order to banish her greyhound-thin emotional sadist of a husband.
