time of one's life
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Clubs and gigs may be remembered as great because they coincide with a heady, hormonal time of one’s life, or they may truly have been great.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2010
Unlike New Year's Eve, no one feels compelled to have the time of one's life or broods unduly when reality fails to conform to these exaggerated expectations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There were the "Horribles," for example, not to have ridden in which at some time of one's life was to have left one page blank.
From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Smith, Ruel Perley
He said that the happiest time of one's life was undoubtedly one's schoolboy days and that he would give anything to be young again.
From Dubliners by Joyce, James
The only bearable time of one's life is the few hours after dinner, when one can sit in a chair in the veranda, and smoke and look at the sea.
From With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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