The phrase "a time when intimate" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing personal relationships or moments of closeness, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "There was a time when intimate conversations brought us closer together."
Alternatives: "a moment of closeness" or "a period of intimacy".
Coming at a time when even many Roosevelt intimates were critical of the idea, Jackson's encouraging words landed him in the president's inner circle.
There was a time when dancing was a fairly intimate business, when one and one's partner did cling and sway to the beat.
Pregnancy is a time when violence against women by intimate partners (or others) can commence, continue or escalate [ 7].
Those who look at the Spirit of St . Louisin the museum are seeing an artifact from a time when human beings were on more intimate terms with their technology.
The weekly Brownstone Jazz concerts here are intimate affairs that recall a time when Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant house parties turned into all-night jams.
Wherever Mr. Feinstein appears, he gives the impression that he is in an intimate supper club from a time when Cole Porter and the Gershwins were the hippest songwriters working.
Chemsex can be seen as a particularly intense way for groups of people to form intimate collective bonds at a time when the government's social and economic policies attempt to make this very thing impossible.
Celebration takes place one person at a time, when you are able to share another's intimate joys and steps toward healing.
She also admitted to taking the class A drug again with a friend in the summer of 2010 at a time when subject to what she described as acts of "intimate terrorism" by her second husband Charles Saatchi.
2. Blame rock, television, rising rents, whatever, but there was a time when any major city worth its smart set had its share of intimate nightclubs.
