Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] by [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became a successful schoolmaster , through the kindly help of a family friend , and was a married man with three daughters by the time he walked to Cambridge in 1748 to become an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College . |
| 2 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 3 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
| 4 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |
| 5 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 6 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 7 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |