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about time
Long past the right time; also, approximately the right time. Thus, It's about time you went to bed can mean either that you should have gone to bed much earlier (often stated with emphasis on the word time), or that now is the appropriate time for you to retire. [Early 1900s] For a synonym, see high time.
Example Sentences
Baby weaning expert and author Charlotte Stirling-Reed told the BBC it was "about time that this was addressed... because food pouches and commercial baby foods are used so much by parents. It was a real gap in the NHS advice until now."
It’s about time that the Dodgers separate from Clayton Kershaw.
"This is going to affect all the watercourses around the area. So it's about time that we had a modern treatment works there and they stop this pollution."
It’s about time to give the Clippers a second reporter to Broderick Turner.
Currently football people only think about time in quite a limited way: how long we have to hold on to the lead, when the first substitution should be made, when to throw the kitchen sink.
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