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Time

Time

(n)
UK
taɪm
US
taɪm
Definition: The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
Meaning: Thời gian, thì giờ
Very Common
How to use "Time" vocabulary in sentence (example)

To put things into perspective, let's take a step back in time!

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If one of these elusive pineapples were to go up for auction or sale, due to the rarity, ancient technique, time spent growing, and manual labor, these pineapples are worth $16,000!

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For a long time, London was a small city.

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This enterprise soon took off, and over time it evolved into the Airbnb we have today, with a little cheeky nod to its birth all those years ago, still in its name.

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Beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthermost planet), it takes a long time to leave the Solar System.

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People have been interested in building machines to do work for us for a long time.

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But it takes time and money to build just one machine, so early ideas were not built.

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Because it takes a long time to send a radio signal from Earth to another planet, the robots do much of their work alone, without commands from Earth.

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Nobody knows when yogurt was discovered, its origins have been lost in the mists of time.

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Milk and cream, plus sugar and flavorings are cooked together for a brief period of time, and then added to a thickening agent (most often gelatin).

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The only thing you need know about this dessert besides the recipe is that you will need to prepare the dessert in advance so it has time to chill.

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Being able to calculate many times per second allows modern computers to multitask, which means they can do many different tasks at the same time.

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Although slavery was legal in Kentucky at that time, Lincoln's father, who was a religious Baptist, refused to own any slaves.

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The nickname "Honest Abe" came from a time when he started a business that failed.

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This time a bidding war took off and it sold for $14.83.

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But in a slow passive aggressive manner over time, they faded the yellow color until it eventually was back to being white.

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This was in hope that customers would not notice the gradual change over time.

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This is not the first time an item has been listed in the wrong category, or identified as something it is not.

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At the time, Coppard was working with The Natural History Museum in London and was able to confirm from the photo uploaded that the species was unidentified, making it a new discovery of sea urchin that he named Coelopleurus exquisitus.

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But the record for the most items listed, collectively form multiple sellers at one given time was 800 million items.

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Spring dish gained immense popularity at the time of Tang and Song dynasty rule and in this period the dish was better known as five spice dish because of its hot and spicy flavor.

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Gradually, at the time of Ming and Qing dynasties, the cake got transformed to rolls and the name changed from spring dish to spring rolls.

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Archimedes was a mathematician, inventor, and astronomer who was one of the most celebrated mathematicians of all time.

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With travel to Bali Indonesia at an all time high so comes the need for information.

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Grid's computer was one fifth the weight of any other computer used at that time.

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If a cat falls from a greater height, it has more time to correct its position mid-flight and prepare itself more for the landing.

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The record is held by a Burmese cat called Tarawood Antigone, who was just four years old at the time.

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Otters spend a large amount of time in the water, yet they still have fur.

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The majority of otters spend most of their time on land.

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Most species of otters actually spend their time on the banks of rivers and other bodies of water when they're not hunting.

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They may sometimes come to shore, but they spend the majority of time in the water, hanging around kelp forests.

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No matter the size of the group though, you will always find them playing around, wrestling, chasing their tails and having an otterly great time.

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Otters can hold their breath for a really long time.

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You'd think this would pose a problem for a species which spends the majority of its time either in water, or hunting in water, but apparently not!

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Otters have to eat vast amounts of food every day, which takes up a significant portion of their time.

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They're incredibly adorable, playing around with each other all the time and seeming to not have a care in the world.

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This means that even though it usually lives on the land, it spends a great amount of time in rivers and lakes where males lead groups of 5 to 30 females and young.

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In remote areas, such as Africa, drones are used for the shipment of live-saving medical equipment and medication where human transport would be too time consuming.

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You get what you want, and you pay for it over time, including interest, just like a bank loan.

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Most people pay the money back a little a time.

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A group of horses will not go to sleep at the same time - at least one of them will stay awake to watch out for the others.

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In 2003, a horse was cloned for the first time.

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An eagle's beak contains keratin, which means that it grows all the time just like human hair and fingernails.

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In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation "The Bill and Melinda gates Foundation.".

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From 2008 Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interests.

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Around this time, fish warehouses sold fried fish and bread, with mention of this in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist published in 1830.

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Over time, wontons have evolved and spread from Northern China throughout the country and beyond.

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English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer.

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When journalists at the time asked soldiers why they were willing to fight in the war, the typical response was "for mom and apple pie".

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The truth is, whatever month of the year you come, it will be hot, but with slightly lower humidity levels the preferred time to visit is between November and February.

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At the time of his death in 2012, he was the third richest man in Thailand.

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Two or more lionesses in a group tend to give birth around the same time, and the cubs are raised together.

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The city was for the first time mentioned in 1275 by count Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland who gave the people of Amsterdam some more freedom.

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That number would even rise to 200,000 near the end of the 17th century, making the city a very large city for its time (only London and Paris also had that many people).

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When the female is close to giving birth, it leaves the group for a time to give birth to its offspring, and comes back 2-3 weeks after her baby is born.

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If you don't have any money set aside as savings, you will have a difficult time paying your other bills because you will have to borrow some of what you've earmarked for food to pay hospital beds.

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For example, opportunity cost is how much leisure time we give up to work.

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The meaning of the term has evolved to mean a stored-program computer in which an instruction fetch and a data operation cannot occur at the same time because they share a common bus.

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The next time it was captured was by the Nazi Germans in 1940.

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The Vatican and the Catholic Church claims there are many things you can do to reduce your time spent in purgatory and become a better person.

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During one conference in 2007, around 60,000 tweets per day were being posted on Twitter, which proved too much for the servers to handle at the time.

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Ellen DeGeneres is responsible for the most retweeted tweet of all time.

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It has become one of the most iconic selfies of all time, as well as being a hugely popular tweet, and many people have sought to replicate it on social media with their own selfies.

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Over time, accumulated snow metamorphoses, by sintering, sublimation and freeze-thaw.

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At that time, a baguette was an expensive dish, which was only served to the upper class or French, because wheat could not be planted in Vietnam due to the tropical weather and imported wheat flour was very expensive.

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Next time you look at a peacock, here are some fun & feathery facts which will make you even more amazed than before!

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When breeding time comes around each year, the peacock will try to impress the peahen as much as possible.

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A peahen can lay up to six eggs at a time, although there have been occasional cases of even more.

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Each time the company enters a new market, they buy smartphones for drivers in countries that they expand to, allowing those drivers to pay daily instalments for the phone.

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At the time, it was known as Amstelredam rather than Amsterdam.

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For example, when you're standing on the corner of Reguliersgracht and Herengracht you can see 15 bridges at the same time!

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She was the only designer to be listed in the Time 100 most influential people of the Twentieth Century.

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It was also a time when women were increasingly seen in professions and jobs, previously the reserve of men.

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All of these companies are buying and selling share of stock all the time.

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At the time of its purchase, there were only 30 million users on the platform.

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Bloomberg developed and built his own computerized system to provide real-time market data, financial calculations and other financial analytics to Wall Street firms.

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At the time of the Spanish invasion there were several thousand of these virgins, otherwise known as Chosen Ones, who were kept in temple like convents.

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The seismicity, or seismic activity, of an area is the frequency, type, and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time.

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Fans of sports can visit the race track at Daytona Beach while getting some sea and sunshine at the same time.

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Watch the time pass by as you enjoy a stroll in Ueno Park, or wander over to Harajuku for a world of fashion and anime.

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No matter which continent, avid travelers will be guaranteed a good time.

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The Pagani Huayra (not the BC) has the honor of the "fastest road-legal Top Gear lap ever" with a time of 01:13:08.

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Only 2 of these vehicles were ever made due to the time needed to produce them.

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Different variations of this dessert have evolved over time by adding different flavors and toppings, these can range from such flavors as vanilla, spices, chocolate, pumpkin and numerous fruit flavors such as mango, lemon, fig and apricot.

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The framework may have to be discarded and a new framework may need to be found, but this technique saves most of the time and stress involved with a complicated project.

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