Sentence examples for at the wrong time than from inspiring English sources

The phrase "at the wrong time than" is not correct in English.
It seems to be a mix-up of comparative structures and should be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "I always seem to arrive at the wrong time."
Alternatives: "at a worse time" or "at an inappropriate time."

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He was surely silenced more for wandering into the wrong place at the wrong time than for exposing the more superficially embarrassing positive prejudice policy.

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It was held at a private house at the wrong time, rather than at a church between 8 and 12 in the morning; all involved parties were prosecuted for breaching ecclesiastical law, and Coke had to beg for a pardon.

The reality is, taking one's phone out at the wrong time is worse than belching because, unlike other peccadilloes, checking tech is contagious.

This appeared to read more of involving stakeholders at the wrong time in collaborative projects than speak of overwhelming volumes.

First, misexpression of genes in the wrong place, at the wrong time or at greater than endogenous levels can sometimes modify a sensitized phenotype that would not be evident by loss-of-function of the same gene and can therefore sometimes provide insight into a gene's function that cannot be gleaned by other methods.

She said police and public had to understand that antisocial behaviour "is not just being annoying or being in the wrong place at the wrong time or there's more than three of you".

Being out at the wrong time can be more costly than being in at the wrong time.

Managers who make right decisions at the wrong time are usually only slightly less vilified than those who make wrong decisions all the time.

More often than not, entrepreneurs raise money at the wrong time and it destroys their startup.

As Jenkins knew better than most, it had done so at the wrong time and in the wrong way.

With Kosenko, however, it's not even obvious what his ultimate sin was, other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time one day last May.

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