Lcchang  +  334763 Fri, 02 Mar 07 02:19 AM In the interest of time, we ask that you hold you questions until all speakers have finished their presentations. What is "in the interest of time"? Please advise. LCChang Lcchang Joined on Mon, Feb 27 2006 Northern Taiwan Contributing Member 1,078 Life will never end.

	Grammar Geek  +  334770 Fri, 02 Mar 07 03:32 AM So things don't take any longer than they have to To keep the amount of time this will take to the minimum amount possible Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Squeaky  +  335114 Sat, 03 Mar 07 01:26 AM To me it looks as if the word saving has been omitted from the sentence.  In the interest of saving time, we ask that you hold your questions until all speakers have finished their presentations.  Squeaky Joined on Sun, Nov 13 2005 Australia Full Member 202

	Philip  +  335142 Sat, 03 Mar 07 03:26 AM  Lcchang wrote: In the interest of time, we ask that you hold you questions until all speakers have finished their presentations. What is "in the interest of time"? Please advise. LCChang In this case:  because we do not want to run out of the time for  all the speakers, we will not have questions until all of them have spoken first. Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,738 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen

	Grammar Geek  +  335146 Sat, 03 Mar 07 03:30 AM  Squeaky wrote: To me it looks as if the word saving has been omitted from the sentence.  In the interest of saving time, we ask that you hold your questions until all speakers have finished their presentations.  No, it's not omitted. It's just an idiomatic use, I guess. But it's pretty common. Grammar Geek