I want to get an engagement ring on her finger before she has time to change her mind again.
A definition of the measurement dependent on dynamical theory has Time.
Broadtails, size IoX5 in., are the very young of the Persian sheep, and are killed before the wool has time to develop beyond the flat wavy state which can be best compared to a piece of moire silk.
At the end of his life he wrote of Amiel, "The man who has time to keep a private diary has never understood the immensity of the universe."
Mallory pretends to co-operate with the crime syndicate so that he has time to build a death ray and kill the mobsters.