1.  In a real bout, time is collapsed.

2.  Right up until the time he collapsed from a stroke.

3.  The effect is that time is collapsed, a potent commentary on what the characters themselves must be feeling.

4.  This is how time is collapsed.

5.  Wax figures, too, are frozen moments and can collapse time.

6.  You collapse time, you combine characters, you overlay dramatic events.

7.  Mr Chan said his wife had not been feeling well and almost collapsed several times since arriving at the hospital ward at midnight on Monday.