The phrase "a time when class" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or instance related to a class or category, often in discussions about education or social dynamics.
Example: "There was a time when class distinctions were more pronounced in our society."
Alternatives: "an era when class" or "a period when class".
It was a time when class loyalty trumped almost all other concerns.
He treated the enlisted men as peers, addressing them as "Gentlemen". At a time when class structure was reinforced in European armies, Washington believed in equality and meritocracy, promoting men who proved their worth through accomplishment rather than family connections.
With fashion styles and looks more intermeshed and intertwined than ever, Pretty in Pink serves as an interesting reminder of a time when class differences were underscored by the clothes characters wore.
At a time when class sizes in Georgia are being increased, teachers furloughed, staff cut, enrichment activities decreased, and school years shortened due to lack of school funding, spending so much taxpayer money on an untested, un-validated instrument is fiscally irresponsible.
That's all fine as far as it goes, but does little to illuminate what the opera is actually about, which is a wry take on growing up and growing older, set at a time when class conventions and pretensions defined the parameters of how such things should be managed.
His father was a piano tuner at a time when class mattered.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the strongest treatment of this issue was the 1958 film of Lord's book, made in Britain — which is to say, by people who had a better feel for class distinctions than Lord (an American) did, and who were working at a time when the class system was under tremendous strain, and was the object of relentless examination in literature and theatre.
Over-privileged, nurtured in the heart of the establishment, personally appointed by Lord Kitchener, he was active at a time when his class still ruled half the world.
Mr. Fitzsimmons entered Harvard at a time when its class lines were starkly drawn, and he has spent much of his 23 years as admissions dean helping the place become more welcoming to outsiders like himself.
In The St .Martin's Handbook there's an example from a time when my class and I took The Three Little Pigs and we all tried to tell The Three Little Pigs in the voice and style of somebody.
