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:
“Most of the time she had the personality of the back wall of a handball court.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service. In God, every end is converted into new means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)