somewhere along the line

Idioms  

1. At some point in time, as in Somewhere along the line I'm sure I climbed that mountain. [Mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Somewhere along the line, the pop world’s foremost parodist was backstage putting on a fat suit “for literally the 1,000th time” when he was suddenly struck by the desire to “go out on stage and do a show like a regular musician.”

From Los Angeles Times

Another leading British jeweller, Stephen Webster, said the standard of the students' work was "extraordinary", adding that "one of the biggest challenges is encouraging more people into what we think is a beautiful industry, but the craft skills are being lost somewhere along the line."

From BBC