"somewhere along the line" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1913, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 1, in Constance Dunlap",
          "text": "[I]t was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. […] \"Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars,\" he remarked.",
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          "ref": "1952 September 29, “The Atom: Enough Bombs?”, in Time, retrieved 2019-06-17",
          "text": "\"I think it is quite obvious,\" he said, \"that the current atomic-arms race can not go on forever. Somewhere along the line […] we will have acquired all the weapons we would possibly need.\"",
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          "ref": "2004 December 5, Mimi Spencer, “Chanel bag. Tick. Fauchon chocs. Tick. Pata Negra ham. Tick.”, in The Guardian (UK), retrieved 2019-06-17",
          "text": "Somewhere along the line, Christmas became the year's fattest festival. It lost its already tenuous association with the sacred and became a wham-bam, all-u-can-eat, deep-fill stufferama.",
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        "(idiomatic) At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually."
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