The phrase "a time when friends" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific moment or period in the past that involved friends or friendship.
Example: "I often think back to a time when friends gathered around the campfire, sharing stories and laughter."
Alternatives: "a moment with friends" or "an occasion with friends".
His courage had been found wanting, at a time when friends such as Rupert Brooke had found it in themselves to face genuine danger overseas.
I had already declined offers from other funds months before, playing chicken at a time when friends at other schools were already focusing on their final exams and readying for their summer work.
It's a focal point of a weekend, a time when friends pop round to catch their team, and then have something to eat and dissect the action, the referee's performance and any perceived bias in commentary or analysis.
Perhaps such simplicity helps explain the current popularity of "The Lord of the Rings"; at a time when friends and enemies are sometimes indistinguishable, the black-and-white world of fantasy holds a particular allure.
VICKY RAAB: I think Laruelle is positioned as a kind of semi-present, semi-exiled celebrant of the Day of the Dead on the Consul and Yvonne's behalf (the Day of the Dead being a time when friends and family visit the gravesites of their loved ones and eat and drink their favorite foods and beverages).
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet VICKY RAAB: I think Laruelle is positioned as a kind of semi-present, semi-exiled celebrant of the Day of the Dead on the Consul and Yvonne's behalf (the Day of the Dead being a time when friends and family visit the gravesites of their loved ones and eat and drink their favorite foods and beverages).
At a time when my friends and contemporaries were building careers, I was sitting in a hospital common room, smoking and drinking tea.
At a time when his friends were rapidly disappearing – one opinion poll had his approval rating fall from 68% before the World Cup to, perhaps unsurprisingly, 20% after their elimination – one old mate gave him a call.
This was at a time when his friends and peers were going to Vietnam.
"In addition to holiday gifts, year-end is also a time when grandparents, friends and other family may want to take advantage of Federal gift tax rules," Polimeni added.
It was usually the same no-chocolate-bad-food-or-soap-operas routine every year, and never was there a time when said friends—albeit only two, three maybe, on my very Jewish block ever gave up food entirely, or decided to chug beer for meals.
