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Originally Posted by pornopete
Why isn't sand correct? I mean you would say 'there is sand in an hourglass', not 'there are sands in an hourglass'. You would say 'I walked on the sand by the beach', you wouldn't say 'I walked on the sands by the beach'. Wouldn't sand also be correct?
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It might be if "sands of time" wasn't the actual expression.