Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 2 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 3 | However , as knowledge becomes increasingly use-specific , its portability declines , perhaps so much so that by the time it is embodied in a specific new product it can only spill over to producers of very similar substitute products . |
| 4 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 5 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 6 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 7 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 8 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 9 | They moved quite quickly and by the time Mum had paid for her shopping and packed it in bags , they had almost reached t ] he last checkout . |