I know that `～ような` means "looks like". In this context:

> ここで立ち止る **ような** 時間はない。

does it mean:

> "It appears it cannot stop here, there is no time"?

What I do understand is that `ような` is followed by a noun, which, in this case,
is `時間`.

I don't understand the "flow" of what comes after `ような` in this sentence. Why
does it not include * _の_ *ような?

Can someone please clarify?
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I dont understand ～ような in this context
な is the attributive form for the copula だ. It allows you to modify nouns. ようだ
is predicative, ような is attributive.

  * 立ち止まる - stop, halt, stand still

  * 立ち止まるようだ - is a way similar to stop

  * 立ち止まるような時間 - time in a way similar to stop

  * 立ち止まるような時間はない - do not have time that is in a way similar to stop

  * ここで立ち止まるような時間はない - at here, do not have time that is in a way similar to stop

The above is an extremely crude and literal translation.

It should approximately mean something like, "We/I/you do not have the time to
do things like stopping here"

(I feel this answer is limited. It does not compare the difference between
立ち止まる時間 and 立ち止まるような時間 to an extent that I wish I could have done.)
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In this sentence, you could remove ような without changing the meaning much.

The ような adds a slight nuance of "or the like", i.e.

We don't have time for stopping or the like.

A very similar effect could be achieved by saying

> ここで立ち止まる時間などない

I don't have the context here, but I would say that in this case it's probably
used mainly for emphasis.
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ような here is equivalent to "kind/sort of" in English.

> "We don't have the kind of time to stop here."
>
> "We don't have that sort of time."

It expresses that, in order to do this action, we would need to have an
entirely different category of amount of time to spend -- in other words, it
emphasizes the lack of time more than without ような.
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