Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |
2 | 1.30 In a serious personal injury case or in a fatal case the initial calculations of loss of earnings or dependency may be made very soon after the accident , based on wage rates provided by the employers at that time . |
3 | The work of the police , according to Sir Robert Mark in 1978 , now required ‘ not only as much physical courage and dedication as policing parts of Victorian London but a great deal more moral courage than has been required by the police at any time since Peel ’ . |
4 | Basically , it reduces to the realization that man 's gelada-like past — which must have lasted for a very considerable period , even by the standards of evolutionary time — left an indelible stamp on both his id and his ego . |
5 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |