Example sentences of "[noun pl] by the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It means fund holding will snowball to the point where all GPs will be fund holders by the time of the next general election . ’ |
| 5 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could still and at the same time be an anglicisation of ‘ Froda ’ , a name ‘ meaningless ’ to hobbits by the time of the War of the Ring , and accepted by them as just another chance disyllable like ‘ Bilba , Bunga , Pola ’ , but actually preserving in oblivion the name of an ancient hero from the Dale or the Mark . |