have (got) the time

idiom

—used to ask someone what time it is

"Do you have the time?" "Yes, it's 10 minutes past 3."

Excuse me, but have you got the time?

Examples of have (got) the time in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The importance of this in the open-source community cannot be understated, as some of the most important software in the world relies on tiny communities that do not have the time or resources to meet onerous cybersecurity regulations. —Stephanie Domas, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025

Losing access would require patients to rely on procedural abortions, necessitating more time, resources, and specialized care—further taxing our overburdened healthcare workforce and increasing wait times for patients who don’t have the time to spare. —Jb Pritzker, Time, 24 June 2025

Rarely does Baratz have the time and serenity to appreciate his agency’s climb. —Alec Lewis, New York Times, 17 June 2025

In school lunches, some kids don’t have the money to pay for lunches from home or don’t have the time to prepare it. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2025

Some don’t have the time to exchange even a glance, making the vendors among the city’s most faceless citizens. —Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025

The project will have the time frame of 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. —Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025

Most people don’t have the time to follow these things very closely, or the expertise to judge them. —Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025

Many of these workers simply don’t have the time to coordinate and attend town halls. —Christine Lightfoot, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025