The article represents the detailed comparative characteristics of the concept “time” as one of the basic concepts of the Tatar and English cultures. It is found out that besides the direct temporal expressions, sentences with a large number of listings are used with the aim to emphasize durability, length of the action, the events that happened, the experience that wasgained; the modifiers indicating the duration of the process and proving our judgment are determined. The author describes the correlation of number and time: number isa way to present the category of quantity in the language.