Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As some of you will know by this time , the Centre provides custom-build courses , day schools , residential schools and other projects , for thousands of adult students in this region — mainly at locations scattered throughout the area , towns and villages of Sussex , but some here on the campus — and by so doing it tries to provide a strong functional link that helps to keep the university in touch with the community . |
| 2 | Prices rose by one-and-a-half times during the course of the war , which represented a significant achievement by the authorities . |
| 3 | In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled . |
| 4 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 5 | Whilst exports to the dollar area rose by three times in current terms between 1947 and 1951 , as a share of total exports the increase ( from 11.5 to 14.5 per cent ) was only marginal . |
| 6 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 7 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 8 | Exceptional Photoplays labelled it as ‘ an uncompromising film ’ and was quite sure it gave proof that ‘ motion picture art has by this time attained its majority ’ . |
| 9 | Sun exposure of more than 50,000 lifetime hours also increased the risk of being excessively wrinkled by 3.1 times . |
| 10 | If the adventurers have destroyed the Blackshard , the Oracle ( if he still lives ) wo n't attack them when they return to room 66 ( all the mucus in stairwell 67 will have magically vanished by this time , allowing them to return ) . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're welcome to come by any time . ’ |
| 12 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 13 | You ought to know by this time that — in the language of popular fiction — he has eyes for no one but you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 15 | ’ And then , softly , ‘ And indeed , the damage was done by that time . |
| 16 | She recalls : ‘ The book was done by this time . |
| 17 | They hope by that time the adoption will have been finalised . |
| 18 | In the past year , prices have risen by three times the rate of inflation , says National Utility Services , which advises industry on costs . |
| 19 | Combining the two lists into a single sequence was considered , but there were practical difficulties with the word processor files then in use , and keeping the data in two files enabled comparative searching by broad time period . |
| 20 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 21 | Gall bladder volumes , measured by real time ultrasonography ( Technicare , 3.5 MHz transducer ) , were calculated by the sum of cylinders method with a computerised system . |
| 22 | After an overnight fast , gall bladder volume was measured by real time ultrasonography ( SDR 1500 , Philips Ultrasound Inc , California , USA : 5.0 MHz transducer ) . |
| 23 | Although it will have overtaken OS/2 's share by this time , Unix will still account for some 32% of servers systems sold by this time , the market research group says . |
| 24 | After a certain amount of small talk , he says casually , ‘ Perhaps I might drop by some time . |
| 25 | The level of repossessions has increased 25-times to more than 75,000 with the level of mortgages between six and 12 months in arrears rising by 18 times to 183,000 . |
| 26 | Most of the other students had foregathered by this time and were awaiting their final briefing from their tutor . |
| 27 | How were your er wages moving by this time ? |
| 28 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 29 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 30 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |