To hear them talk, time had erased any bitterness at the movement that ultimately self-destructed.

But as the 15th anniversary approaches, it is clear that neither time nor official propaganda has erased the events from China's political consciousness.

"Any time you have contact, it erases all those days you heard nothing," his father said.

It was as if they had a map imprinted on their spirit, that neither time nor distance could erase.

This time out, the clarinetist erases such a distinction, making his horn sing as never before.

Alas, time and Freudian slippage have erased it from my memory.

I don't believe that time can have erased all traces of such clever people.

We pass through life very quickly, and each one of us writes our little story, which time will erase.

"One day, time will erase your youthful charm," he tells her.

Scientists estimate that time and erosion have erased 99 percent of all dinosaur footprints.