Example sentences of "and by [art] middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 2 | The fact that the coal trade did not develop on anything like the scale expected by the promoters of the Leicester and Grand Union Canals , and by the middle of the century what trade there was steadily fell off . |
| 3 | The Industrial Revolution , which created a vast demand for urban housing , made Welsh slate an almost universal roofing material , and by the middle of the nineteenth century some 16,000 men were working in the quarries , producing roofing slates called ‘ duchesses ’ and ‘ countesses ’ , among other titled ladies , according to their size . |
| 4 | Inevitably , the stocks of whales became depleted , and by the middle of the eighteenth century the whaling at Svalbard ( or , as it was called , the ‘ East Greenland Fishery ’ ) had ceased altogether . |
| 5 | SP/32 anticipates adding AIX and HP clients and by the middle of next year will come up with a Unix server model for Sun , IBM , HP , Ultrix and perhaps Alpha OSF/1 . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the prices objective became more important in most economies , and by the middle of the 1970s it had replaced full employment as the principal objective of the UK government . |
| 7 | During June a more threatening outbreak developed under the leadership of ‘ Robin of Redesdale ’ ( almost certainly Warwick 's associate Sir John Conyers ) and by the middle of the month Edward had decided to go north himself . |
| 8 | Illegitimate births formed only a small number of the total registered births before 1750 , but by the end of the eighteenth century an illegitimacy ratio of 5 per cent was common and by the middle of the nineteenth century 20 per cent was often the norm . |
| 9 | A sharp downturn in 1920–1 was aggravated and by the middle of 1921 Britain was experiencing one of the worst recessions in its history , with unemployment rising to 2.4 million in May in that year ( 22 per cent of the insured labour force ) . |
| 10 | The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement . |
| 11 | During June a more threatening outbreak developed under the leadership of ‘ Robin of Redesdale ’ ( almost certainly Warwick 's associate Sir John Conyers ) and by the middle of the month Edward had decided to go north himself . |
| 12 | and then it all had to be scrapped and by the middle |
| 13 | The ILP regarded this as a negative approach and by the middle of 1937 the Communist Party was complaining of the impossibility of continued cooperation between the two parties . |