somewhere along the line

Another leading British jeweller, Stephen Webster, said the standard of the students' work was "extraordinary", adding that "one of the biggest challenges is encouraging more people into what we think is a beautiful industry, but the craft skills are being lost somewhere along the line."

Somewhere along the line, “cult” has come to mean so many things that I’m no longer sure it means anything at all.

He said "somewhere along the line, he's found a weapon or brought a weapon".

“There was a breakdown of communication somewhere along the line. ... It probably caused some, if not all, of those lives” to be lost.

Somewhere along the line, they got twisted.