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Ruslana Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

At any moment in time?

At any moment in time there are clear limits on the availability of resourses.

This is a sentence from a grammar book that we use at English lessons at my university. The question is whether in is okay to say there. If I were to write that, I would use of. I guess both could be fine (considering that the text was kind of official - an article on economics), but I'd like to make sure.
  

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in is correct. of is not correct. I'm more concerned about a grammar book containing a misspelled word!

— CalifJim

  • in is correct.
  • of is not correct.
  • I'm more concerned about a grammar book containing a misspelled word!
  • ( resour c es ) CJ
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in is correct.
of is not correct.

I'm more concerned about a grammar book containing a misspelled word! (resources)

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I would never use "of" here but Google returns about 3:1 for "at any moment in time" and "at any moment of time" respectively.
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CJ, you're the quickest replier again. Emotion: big smile[f]

Is it an idiom? That's strange I've never come across it before.

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You may use " At any given point of time.........".
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Yes, but I wonder why of is wrong. As I know, this preposition may be used between two nouns to make the genitive. Moment is a noun, and so is time.

Maybe this misunderstanding comes from Russian because the verbatim translation of the phrase would be in the genitive (Moment of what? Moment of time). It's a pity it's not acceptable in English. It would make things ea
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I'm not sure, I think it's a matter of semantics: any moment is time, so "moment of time" somehow lacks sense. But you can see time as a set of moments, so any anyone moment in the set could be semantically better.

Again, I'm not sure.
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