A company's stock-take becomes rather • more complicated when the stock in question has a tendency to wander around and reproduce at inconvenient moments.

Parents always chose the most inconvenient moments to turn up.

But if you go into a cricket match needing everything to go swimmingly, events have a habit of going wrong at inconvenient moments.

They get bunged up with wax and their batteries give out at inconvenient moments.

Customers slammed problems including delivery hitches, delays, overpackaging and inconvenient time slots.

A further 8 per cent of patients said that they could only get one at an inconvenient time, up from 7 per cent in 2012.

It has come at an inconvenient time when we are very short of money.

And at some similarly inconvenient time another idea occurs to me.

It's not an inconvenient time to call.

I'm facing an inconvenient truth: the more you eat, the hungrier you get.

Nonsense that distracts from an inconvenient truth, embarrassing to the political class and its attendant priesthood of medical and epidemiological experts.

An inconvenient truth commands a not inconsiderable paycheck.

But proving himself to be more pragmatic than his critics he also noted the inconvenient truth that the doomsters' warnings were not coming to pass.

The box's dreadful solidity brings home the inconvenient truth that we are only leaseholders in our fragile bodies.