1.  Time is treated as if it were something almost real.

2.  Bowl games treat rematches like toddlers treat bed time.

3.  A lot will depend on how the candidates treat the time.

4.  Companies often offer incentives to encourage workers to take vacations because the unused time is treated by their accountants as debt.

5.  Other parents treated time the same way.

6.  She also treated air time as something too precious to squander, he said.

7.  We sometimes act as though we could treat time the same way.

8.  He has treated his time in Bonn as provisional, an unwelcome stop on the road to Berlin.

9.  Coach Patrice Lagisquet this week accused Roff of treating his time in France as a holiday and the Australian vowed to seek showdown talks.