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39 PHRASE If you say that something will be the case for all time , you mean that it will always be the case. □  No referendum will settle anything for all time.

40 PHRASE If something is the case or will happen for the time being , it is the case or will happen now, but only until something else becomes possible or happens. □  For the time being, however, immunotherapy is still in its experimental stages.

41 PHRASE If you do something from time to time , you do it occasionally but not regularly. □  Her daughters visited him from time to time when he was ill.

42 PHRASE If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case. [INFORMAL ] □  Half the time, I don't have the slightest idea what he's talking about.

43 PHRASE If you say that you have no time for a person or thing, you mean you do not like them or approve of them, and if you say that you have a lot of time for a person or thing, you mean you like them or approve of them very much. □  When I think of what he's done to my mother and me, I've just got no time for him.

44 PHRASE If you say that it is high time that something happened or was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner. [EMPHASIS ] □  It is high time the Government displayed a more humanitarian approach towards victims of the recession.

45 PHRASE If you are in time for a particular event, you are not too late for it. □ [+ for ] I arrived just in time for my flight to London.

46 PHRASE If you say that something will happen in time or given time , you mean that it will happen eventually, when a lot of time has passed. □  He would sort out his own problems, in time. □  Tina believed that, given time, her business would become profitable.

47 PHRASE If you are playing, singing, or dancing in time with a piece of music, you are following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. If you are out of time with it, you are not following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. □ [+ with ] Her body swayed in time with the music. □  We were standing onstage playing completely out of time.

48 PHRASE If you say that something will happen, for example, in a week 's time or in two years ' time , you mean that it will happen a week from now or two years from now. □  Presidential elections are due to be held in ten days' time.

49 PHRASE If you arrive somewhere in good time , you arrive early so that there is time to spare before a particular event. □ [+ for ] If we're out, we always make sure we're home in good time for the programme.

50 PHRASE If you tell someone that something will happen in good time or all in good time , you are telling them to be patient because it will happen eventually. □  There will be exercises that you can't do at first. You will get to them in good time.

51 PHRASE If something happens in no time or in next to no time , it happens almost immediately or very quickly. □  He expects to be out of prison in next to no time.

52 PHRASE If you do something in your own time , you do it at the speed that you choose, rather than allowing anyone to hurry you. □  Now, in your own time, tell me what happened.

53 PHRASE If you do something such as work in your own time in British English, or on your own time in American English, you do it in your free time rather than, for example, at work or school. □  If I choose to work on other projects in my own time, then I say that is my business.