The phrase "a time when small" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and would need additional context to be usable.
Example: "There was a time when small businesses thrived in our community."
Alternatives: "an era of small" or "a period when small".
Charles C. Watson Jr., president of Kinetic Analysis, said Irene hit at a time when small businesses and homeowners "can't handle another shock to the budget".
The idea goes back decades, to a time when small retailers, which needed to offer credit, pooled information on which customers were good and bad payers.
The state loans provide tenants with assurances that the money will be available at a time when small business loans are hard to come by.
A group of 20 merchants organized the country's first chamber of commerce (1768) at a time when small manufacturing establishments cloth, timber processing, ropes, and sails were becoming more common.
Perhaps that is the price of competing at a time when small companies feel the need to offer more things to more people, in a world where style is supreme.
Albert Bergeret and his New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players have been plying the Savoyard repertory for more than three decades — starting at a time when small operetta companies were plentiful in New York — and outliving all the competition.
At a time when smaller libraries are seeing closures, there is a reassuring symbolism in the opening of this impressive library, as long as the smaller fish aren't killed off elsewhere.
The $1.5 billion cash deal, announced yesterday, would give Monsanto control of half the American market for cotton seeds and could face tough antitrust scrutiny at a time when smaller seed companies are being gobbled up by larger ones.
Indeed, at a time when smaller startups full of talent and good ideas may be finding it hard to raise their next round of funding, HootSuite is shoring up as a big player in its own right.
Simply, the development boom of the last half-century forgot northeastern Connecticut, where, at least on the surface, life still resembles a simpler time, when small farms and stores were the norm.
At a time when American small businesses need the assistance of federal small business contracting programs more than ever, thousands of legitimate small businesses could be forced to close their doors and millions of middle class jobs could be lost if the NVCA is successful.
