The phrase "time is passing by" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to emphasize the passing of time, particularly when time is an important factor in a situation. For example, "We only have three days before the deadline, and time is passing by quickly.".
Time is passing by fast and according to our checklist, we were supposed to be knee deep in our passion by age 25.
"Right now a moment of time is passing by... we must become that moment".
That yearning would be echoed in a haunting ballad called "Hope in a Hopeless World" in which Mr. Roy sings: You gotta listen to the voice inside you That speaks of love Don't compromise Realize That time is passing by.
All that is happening now it sounds is time is passing by and the debt is just growing.
When her first husband and their child gave her a serving dish ("a lively red and covered with white flowers") for Valentine's Day, her reaction was not gratitude but "anger that she had entered the unromantic era of life," and that "her child was in cahoots with her father in giving her this awful gift, this mirror in which she saw herself as someone whom time was passing by".
The bill, which was the most costly disaster aid package at the time, was passed by Congress as House Resolution 5620 on September 18, and signed into law by President Bush on September 23.
The pictures the women came up with -- innocent paintings, some as simple as a street corner in Washington Heights, a watch surrounded by the words "Time is passing you by" -- are on display at White Box, alongside Mr. Maguire's portraits of the women.
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