Time served is also a term used to indicate a craftsman has spent the required period as an apprentice.
Famous quotes containing the words time and/or served:
“I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time that I questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.”
—Louise Nevelson (1900–1988)
“Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)