The government soon realized that this time, however, things were different.

It's about time things started moving in a positive direction.

He was in the Navy when we met, and for a time things seemed to go all right.

Before the cancer, the last time things were really right.

They would be saying, in effect, that this time things are different.

Most of the time things don't work out that way.

Only maybe this time things will turn out a little better for me.

I'll walk up behind you and time things so we go in the apartment house together.

Perhaps when you actually go back in time things aren't the way they are supposed to be.

Maybe if he was faster, this time things would be different.