The phrase "a time when official" is not correct in English as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in a context discussing a specific period related to official matters, but it needs additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "There was a time when official documents were required for every transaction."
Alternatives: "a period when official" or "an era when official".
At a time when "official" American culture often insisted that the American story was one of endless triumphs and optimism, they told stories of tragic fate.
In spite of the impulse to brand him a terrorist and ship his butt to Gitmo, Boyd doesn't seem to be guilty of much beyond advancing unpopular political and religious beliefs at a time when official US policy is running the other direction.
Andrew Brown, director of programmes at Mentor, the drug and alcohol prevention charity, said: "It is shocking that at a time when official figures show that one in five 15-year-olds took cannabis last year, and one in ten 10 have been drunk three times or more in the last month, the government chooses to reduce its commitment and prevention".
At a time when official Washington was still silent the British information office let the cat out of the bag with the statement that Tuesday "will be regarded as VE-Day" and the setting of times for official broadcasts by Prime Minister Churchill and King George VI.
After a time, when officials decided he would not cooperate with them, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assumed a greater role in his interrogations.
Mr. Bloomberg tried to gain control during an election year in Albany, a time when officials, in particular the governor, make the seemingly impossible happen.
Prosecutors have described the law as a valuable instrument against corruption at a time when officials have become increasingly sophisticated at covering their tracks.
She was an accomplished Latina lawyer at a time when officials sought to diversify the white power structure by promoting more blacks, Latinos and women.
This system dated to the end of the First World War, a time when officials at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were working hard to find an answer to what they called the "Jewish question".
And pressure for transparency may rise after revelations that many members of parliament are paid on the side by big German companies.German bureaucracy is still culturally wedded to official secrecy, going back to a time when officials were accountable only to the sovereign and nobody thought government agencies really worked for citizens.
