TIME YET TO infinitive

At 55 B1+ on the GSE, in the vocabulary section,

YET = used to emphasize that something could still happen in the future, or that there is still enough time to do something

For example:

There’s plenty of time yet to enter the competition.

*The second sense is not listed in the EGP or EVP.  It is very hard to get corpus data for the second half of the definition: ‘still enough time‘.  For example “days yet to come” = ‘the coming days’.


A search in NOW corpus for:

time yet to _VVI

1 TIME YET TO COME 33
2 TIME YET TO GET 16
3 TIME YET TO GO 16
4 TIME YET TO MAKE 12
5  TIME YET TO RAISE 12

We don’t think it’s time yet to raise interest rates,

6 TIME YET TO EASE 10

Covid-19 cases have come down in Delhi but it is not time yet to ease restrictions.

scroll.in

7 TIME YET TO START 9
8 TIME YET TO DEVELOP 8

We spend too much time thinking about what a child will become tomorrowyet we forget that they are someone today.
There’s time yet to develop and find a true skill or love for something that will help them through their adulthood.

thecomet.net

9  TIME YET TO GIVE 6
10 TIME YET TO REFLECT 6