Example sentences of "[n mass] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damaged by its losses — which were reduced by $80m by the time the quarter ended — Comdisco had its credit rating chopped and reported a net loss for the quarter ended December 31 , 1987 , of $56m … despite a growth in revenue to $327m from $268m . |
| 2 | The actual cost of the loan , over 15 years , would be nearly £50,000 by the time you had paid it in full . |
| 3 | The names in lights will include Arnold Schwarzenegger in Carolco 's ‘ Terminator 2 ’ , which may have cost $90m by the time it hits the screen ; Kevin Costner as Robin Hood ; and Julia Roberts in ‘ Dying Young ’ , a Fox weepie . |
| 4 | Of course they are rightly pleased to have agreed a new marketing contract with IMG for 1993–95 worth almost double the initial three year contract which guaranteed them $56m but is likely to be around $75m by the time it is completed . |
| 5 | As credit is now so central to people 's lives — financing as it does something approaching half of what they buy , other than day-to-day necessities — and as choice of credit arrangements is increasingly diverse and complex , people by the time they leave school should be equipped to deal sensibly with it . |
| 6 | But even in Kenya — the country with one of the fastest population growth rates in the world — there will only be 120 million people by the time Kenyan population stabilises . |
| 7 | Oag hopes to employ 40 people by the time his new factories are up and running , and stresses his sense of responsibility to the Highlands . |