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The phrase "time was passing" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the feeling of a situation in which time is moving. For example, "As I waited for the bus, I could feel the minutes ticking by; time was passing all too slowly."
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But time was passing.
Andreas was aware that time was passing.
"I didn't know how time was passing.
"Time was passing, but I couldn't tell," said Mr. Visel, a researcher at a research organization.
Maybe that's why he never seemed to notice that time was passing.
"It suddenly came to me that time was passing," she reflects.
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Every position group had its own small meeting room at the facility, and ample time was passed there.
As Mr. Knight clutches "the last outlying knot of starved herbage," the passage concludes, "A minute — perhaps more time — was passed in mute thought by both.
Most of the time was passed watching TV, studying, working on computers, or conversation.
Time is passing.
Meanwhile, time is passing.
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