The phrase "were on time" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a past tense verb phrase that means someone or something arrived at the designated time or was punctual. Example: "The students were on time for their morning classes, which impressed their teacher." In this sentence, "were on time" describes the students' timeliness for their classes and is a perfectly acceptable and natural phrase to use in written English.
Of all the trains that ran last year, the railroads said, nearly 96 percent were on time -- one of the best performances since they began keeping records.
So it was more than a little surprising when Faggen and I returned to the house one afternoon thinking that we were on time and were informed, in the sternest terms imaginable, that we were not.
All were on time and went off smoothly with one hitch: an intermediary stop skipped due to fog.
Singapore Airlines is one of the world's best airlines; in this case, all flights were on time and the flight attendants courteous and helpful.
Of course late people can be kind and compassionate, but the punctual crowd seems to be a slightly more nurturing one, says DeLonzor, citing a 1990 study found that people who were on time or early were more nurturing than people who were late.
The commuter rails were on time.
Why was the federation not heavily involved in ensuring that projects were on-time and up-to-standard?
A majority of the trips were on-time, with travel times of less than 200 min.
In an era of declining everything, this question almost sounds impertinent, but new numbers from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics show that airlines were on-time 86.3percentt of the time in April, a jump of 10.8percentt over last April and 4.1percentt over March.
Approximately 85percentt of the subsequent screenings were on-time.
(The longer time window was used to keep the loss of data arbitrarily to no more than 15%) Excluding the first screening after the resumption of screening, approximately 93percentt of the annual subsequent screenings and 85percentt of the biennial subsequent screenings were on-time.
