The phrase "a present time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the current moment or the current period in time.
Example: "At a present time, we are evaluating our options for the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "the current time" or "the present moment".
However, these schemes suffer from the forward forgery which is an attempt to stamp a present time-stamp on a past document by an unauthorized one.
And whether he gets a present-time belief depends on whether he believes these propositions involving the haecceities of moments of time at their times or at his eternal perspective.
On this view, one gets a first-person belief by believing a proposition including his or her own haecceity, and one gets a present-time belief by believing a proposition involving the haecceity of a moment of time at the time in question.
Tian et al. (2008a, b) developed an advanced multi-component, hydrodynamic thermosphere model to study self-consistently the response of the Earth's thermosphere under EUV flux values from 1 (present) to 20 times that of the present-days solar value by assuming a present-time Earth atmospheric composition.
From a present-time perspective of a relaxed body and mind, the thoughts that disturb us--invariably based on past memories or future projections--lose their appeal.
In our model-based approach φ(x) is interpreted as a present-time density that has been shaped by a historical Wright Fisher process on a population tree specified by the parameters θ.
As a consequence, the present time does not seem to be able to define a prevalent typological model.
In 1854 she published Ruth Hall, a Domestic Tale of the Present Time, a barely concealed semi-autobiographical account of her own difficulties in the literary world.
The director of "Star Trek 3" remains a mystery at present time, but not the film's screenwriters.
You live under a rock: At the present time I do not live under a rock.
