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The phrase "shift in time" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a change in the chronological sequence of events, or a change in the timing of something. For example, you could say "The movie took a shift in time when the protagonist decided to go back in time and prevent the accident from happening."
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Jeff Segal's lighting subtly suggests each shift in time.
There is a painter here, Maaike Schoorel, whose extraordinarily fugitive self-portraits seem to shift in time.
From the beginning of the novel there is an unexpected, disorientating, shift in time and the plot never leaves the reader feeling entirely secure.
This quick shift in time frames proves to be much more seductive than a simple introduction to the older, tougher Helen would be.
The result of that shift in time spent on work or career stretched well beyond the months (or years) spent with a baby at the breast.
It moves through as many as 14 different moments across a 30-year period in Benjy's memory, often without any overt signal to the reader that a shift in time has just occurred.
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Assume that a signal has been defined, then specifies signal shifted in time as indicated (imagine that the symbol constitutes an arrow →).
So, gradually, my emphasis shifted in time to February.
There are shifts in time and narrative perspective, flashbacks, dreams and illusions.
Critics were intrigued by its unexpected shifts in time, place and point of view.
But the story, which has the quality of a mystery, shifts in time to the Vienna of 1819 and 1823.
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