Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 2 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
| 3 | They were British citizens by the time that Ilya Holovich entered Kingston General Hospital for a difficult confinement . |
| 4 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 5 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
| 6 | He became a successful schoolmaster , through the kindly help of a family friend , and was a married man with three daughters by the time he walked to Cambridge in 1748 to become an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College . |
| 7 | The Orient had well-developed civilizations long before anything in Europe , and they too appreciated the qualities of the rose and its potential when cross-bred and hybridized — a process that was well in advance of the horticultural achievements of European civilizations by the time the latter 's explorations brought East and West together . |
| 8 | A premise is that the infant has been exposed to virtually all possible feelings by the time he or she goes to school . |
| 9 | Well , you do n't have black teeth by the time everything 's finished ! |
| 10 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 11 | It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ We were all very great friends by the time they had left , ’ said Mrs Shapland . |
| 13 | A young man in his late teens by the time of the council of Whitby and the son of the reigning king in Bernicia by Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine , Ecgfrith was almost certainly in a position to attract support not only among the Bernicians but also among the Deirans in the territory of Ealhfrith , and in the last years of his reign Oswiu did make him sub-king of Deira . |
| 14 | With no work to go to and nothing to do except sit in my room and think , I got through a fair number of mental scenarios by the time the next damp grey evening arrived . |
| 15 | Richard Gough , for example , had 15 full caps by the time he was 19 . |
| 16 | It is usually about 9 to 11 kg 20 to 25 lbs by the time your baby is due . |
| 17 | Most caputs were in the lowlands , in river valleys surrounded by good quality fertile land , rather than in inhospitable uplands , and many were important manors by the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) , usually in royal ownership or that of some other great body , such as a bishop or an ancient abbey . |
| 18 | This means that students must be able to achieve and demonstrate success in Compact terms by the time they reach the compulsory school leaving age at the end of the fifth year of secondary education . |
| 19 | In fact Nathaniel had grown into a dissolute of considerable proportions by the time Dowd entered his employ , and could not have cared less what kind of creature Dowd was as long as he procured the right kind of company . |
| 20 | The Thomas household had five sons by the time Edward was ten years old . |
| 21 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 22 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
| 23 | I do n't think there were many sober players by the time they got back to Leeds . |
| 24 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 25 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |
| 26 | Those for levels 1 to 3 are the same as those specified by Order for key stage 1 , which will have been published in statutory Documents by the time this report is made public . |
| 27 | But that took about two years by the time , I purposely started smoking to keep it down . |
| 28 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 29 | Since coming to Leeds from Lincoln City for £500 in 1906 , McCleod had scored 117 League goals in more than 200 games by the time a benefit match was held for him in April 1913 . |
| 30 | The enthusiasm aroused in the other four members by the time of the Hague Congress was one indication that Britain was in danger of becoming rather isolated . |