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  2. Lost time - Wikipedia

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    The total time taken for all waiting drivers to react and accelerate is the start-up lost time. Clearance lost time is the time lost to stopping a line of vehicles at the end of a green phase. Lost time is always measured in seconds. Start-up lost time can be calculated as the sum of the differences between the headways for the first cars in ...

  3. In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

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    In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.

  4. Tempus fugit - Wikipedia

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    Tempus fugit (Classical Latin pronunciation: [ˈt̪ɛmpʊs̠ ˈfʊɡit̪]) is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil 's Georgics , [ 1 ] where it appears as fugit irreparabile tempus : "it escapes, irretrievable time".

  5. LTIFR - Wikipedia

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    LTIFR (lost time injury frequency rate) is the number of lost time injuries occurring in a workplace per 1 million hours worked. An LTIFR of 7, for example, shows that 7 lost time injuries occur on a jobsite every 1 million hours worked. The formula gives a picture of how safe a workplace is for its workers.

  6. Genevieve of Brabant - Wikipedia

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    In Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913–27), the narrator remembers a magic lantern he had in his room, in Combray, that showed the image of Golo riding his horse towards Genevieve's castle. He says: "... and I would fall into the arms of my mother, whom the misfortunes of Geneviève de Brabant had made all the dearer to me, just as ...

  7. Sands of time (idiom) - Wikipedia

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    "Still-Life with a Skull" by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1671. The sands of time is an English idiom relating the passage of time to the sand in an hourglass.. The hourglass is an antiquated timing instrument consisting of two glass chambers connected vertically by a narrow passage which allows sand to trickle from the upper part to the lower by means of gravity.

  8. Lost ending explained: What actually happened in the most ...

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    Lost, which has just been added to Netflix in the US, has the most misunderstood finale of all time.. Upon its initial broadcast, the divisive two-parter caused a large number of disappointed ...

  9. Value of time - Wikipedia

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    The value of time cannot be assumed constant over time. Time is a limited good and as productivity and income increase, the relative value of time increases as well. [5] Historically, the projection of the value of time has been closely linked to personal income growth, which in practical applications is typically approximated by GDP growth.