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‘A time can be formative.’

[⟨det time.n⟩ formative.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I listen to it a lot, even though it clearly betrays the fact I not – so – secretly loved cheesy Celtic’ ‘folk’’ music at a formative time in my life and it has a song by Bright Eyes and NIN – context, people!
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In the British National Corpus:

This was the formative time of her life intellectually – she received a second class (division I) in part i of the economic tripos (1907) and a first in part ii (1908) – and emotionally, through enduring friendships formed.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Ah, but Morrissey, Morrissey, Morrissey… because he spoke to me so eloquently at that formative time in my life, he will always be precious to me.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The pedigreed shorts in this collection have made their mark in film festivals around the world and speak to that formative time in everyone’s life when one false move can change absolutely everything. – Available: 12 / 9 / 2008
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In a similar vein, well… high school really is a formative time, and there generally is a ‘popular’ crowd and a bunch of’ not popular’ crowds.
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In Wikipedia:

While spending some formative time in Memphis, he started playing gospel music at age thirteen.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

College can be a formative time in a young person’s life.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He was an early influence; that film came out when I was in my freshman year of high school and it left quite an impression during a formative time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

On this trip I reminded that a very formative time in my life, college, is getting farther and farther away.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Though Glueckstein could have written a full biography of Mantle’s life, he has intelligently limited his scope to the baseball star’s rookie year with the New York Yankees, and all that led up to that formative time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

All the memories of that formative time in my life coursing through every bone in my body.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My time at Canterbury Texas A & M was very formative, and I look forward to helping this important ministry to grow.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But, dammit, the time spent inside those walls as an adolescent are formative.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Needless to say, that was a pretty formative time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Of the women who were single and roughly my age during the peculiar formative time of grad school, a full half of them represented on my Facebook friendslist (7 of 14) have babies now.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In this formative time no other writer influenced me like David Foster Wallace.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

During this formative time, God was pretty hands-on and brutal because he had to be because perhaps the young nation of Israel needed this kind of discipline and guidance.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

At age ten and into his teen years, a formative time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In 2007, Henry returned to Headquarters as the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, responsible for all FBI computer investigations worldwide, and has been praised in the media as the leader of a new National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, which is something he’s a perfect candidate for, given his formative time at the NIPC, and his time in the National Executive Service.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.