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The phrase "a small breakdown when" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor failure or malfunction that occurs at a specific time or under certain conditions.
Example: "There was a small breakdown when the system was overloaded during peak hours."
Alternatives: "a minor failure when" or "a slight malfunction when".
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Boats to Calvi are much less frequent, but it's worth organising your travel around a direct ferry unless you want to have a small breakdown when you get the quote from the cab driver.
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So when husband No 2 pegs out on their wedding night, she has a small breakdown and holes up in a motel before being duped into joining the army.
Which would suggest it is not a small breakdown; it is not a small thing that went wrong.
I recently received contact from one of these men and had a small breakdown.
a divorced man suffers a breakdown when raccoons infest his property.
"I had a terrible breakdown when I was about twenty-five.
She had a severe breakdown when my nephew was 3 months old.
Thomas's family said he was having a mental breakdown when he committed the crimes.
"I had a nervous breakdown when I was nine years old and ended up in Bellevue Hospital.
His mother suffered a nervous breakdown when he was 3.
She is knee deep into a nervous breakdown when a stoic cop (Nate Parker) saves the day.
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