1.   She was so absorbed in the task that she hardly noticed time passing.

2.   But the company has a difficult time passing rising expenses on to consumers, because increasingly powerful retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco tend to compete on price.

3.   Despite such constant evidence of time passing, you will be tempted to look at your own watch.

4.   Even with higher wholesale and producer prices, these analysts said, both industry and retailers are having a difficult time passing along price increases amid weak consumer demand.

5.   It was all about shifting sands, time passing, the future being uncertain.

6.   It might make you think of time passing, the end of the century.

7.   WHERE HAVE all the Doggie Diner heads gone, long time passing?