somewhere along the line
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Somewhere along the line, he’d become a friend.
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Somewhere along the line something went wrong and she was born with her right leg all twisted up.
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But, she says, "somewhere along the line you have to press the pause button... and say this is your Christmas. It's a day in my life. What do you want?"
From BBC
Somewhere along the line, she also became extremely adept at writing in English, as her novels are not written in her native tongue.
From Los Angeles Times
But somewhere along the line, economics was all but consumed by math, and things everybody had always known—that humans are fickle, emotional, bad at reasoning, captives of their prior mistakes, etc.—were forgotten or cast aside.
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