Where the time has gone

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

He will tell you where the time has gone".

We step into a game world and emerge, hours later, with little sense of where the time has gone.

Tell me I've been an actor for fifty years and ask me where the time has gone.

It's amazing how often we pick up our phones "just to check" then look up 20 minutes later wondering where the time has gone.

When I find myself at home with a free evening, I often have no idea what to do and inevitably end up staring emptily at one screen or another for hours, before stumbling off to bed, wondering where the time has gone.

"I'm in in in in in a hurry!" goes one song, and in every show, you are forced to rewatch an edited version of everything you have just seen, in order to try and help the parent work out where the time has gone – a question they ask themselves repeatedly and never seem able to answer.

I wrote the picture book Amazing Grace over 25 years ago and it's hard to imagine where all the time has gone.

It may sound cliché, but I can honestly tell you I don't know where all the time has gone.

I just turned 33 years old and can't tell you where most of the time has gone.

Eight years after I took that job, I looked back and wondered where the time had gone.

"Done" feels great with its "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" refrain, and "Planting Seeds" starts off well enough then progresses into its clever "I'd hand it to time if I knew where the time had gone" lyrics before hitting a chorus that might be too wordy to be catchy (that's a good thing).