at one time or another

Idioms  

1. On various separate occasions. For example, At one time or another I've considered replacing the furnace, but so far I haven't done so. [Early 1600s]

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Example Sentences

Says Jim Rodriguez of Torrance, it “captures the quintessential reality that, in L.A., all the levels of social strata, at one time or another, exist side by side on our roads and freeways, separated by a few feet, metal and glass. And yet, still so isolated from each other.”

From Los Angeles Times

All children had to put up with such things at one time or another.

From Literature

In all of this, he’s getting at something powerful but hard to quantify that we all perhaps have felt, if only briefly, at one time or another.

From The Wall Street Journal

Practically every working actor of some repute has offhandedly mentioned their interest in directing a film at one time or another.

From Salon

Some 70 percent of the city's children were evacuated at one time or another, either abroad or to the west of Ukraine.

From Barron's