Example sentences of "[num] but by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station hotels at Euston and Curzon Street were exceptions in the 1830s but by the 1840s hotel accommodation had become an essential part of the planning of new railway stations . |
| 2 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 3 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 4 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 5 | Singapore had been under Japanese occupation from 1942 but by the time Bernard reached there it was under the control of the British Military Administration . |
| 6 | His own officials meanwhile conducted a further loyalty check on government employees , and Vice-President Nixon boasted " We " re kicking the Communists and fellow travellers … out of the government not by the hundred but by the thousands . " |
| 7 | However , no agreement was reached on the total amount of assistance , estimated by the USA to be around $14,000 million but by the EC as no more than $9,000 million . |