Time gap
1) "We count the minutes between us and the sound of the bell."
2) "We count the minutes separating us from the sound of the bell."
Which of the two sounds better (if any)?
Top answer
I'm not very clear what you are referring to. A period of time normally separates, or lies between, two events. What does it mean for a period of time to separate, or lie between, us and an event?
- I'm not very clear what you are referring to.
- A period of time normally separates, or lies between, two events.
- What does it mean for a period of time to separate, or lie between, us and an event?
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I'm not very clear what you are referring to. A period of time normally separates, or lies between, two events. What does it mean for a period of time to separate, or lie between, us and an event?
0Are you trying to observe the amount of time that passes between the sounding of a bell and when its sound reaches you at some particular distance away?
If so, you'd have to be an enormous distance from the bell if you were counting the time in minutes— so far, in fact, that the sound would fade out by then and you wouldn't hear it at all.
This seems to me to be an impossibl
0Thanks to you both. I mean that when we do something boring for a living, sometimes we are impatient and looking forward to hearing the bell that indicates the end of our shift ring. So how would you say that?
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