Usually means: Hourglass grains measuring passing moments.
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  1. the sands of time: Merriam-Webster
  2. the sands of time: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sands of time: Wiktionary
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noun:  (literary) time considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass

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