Example sentences of "[adv] and by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 2 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |
| 3 | They moved quite quickly and by the time Mum had paid for her shopping and packed it in bags , they had almost reached t ] he last checkout . |
| 4 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 5 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 6 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 7 | So we sauntered home and by the time just when we got home perhaps by you know we 'd get home at nine , by quarter past nine er we saw the Zeppelin come over . |
| 8 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 9 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 10 | and you 're thinking how did he get from there and by the time you 've worked out how he got from there to there you 've |
| 11 | mother-in-law 's there and by the time I get to Filey |
| 12 | The business grew steadily and by the time I joined in 1962 we were manufacturing and selling about 20,000 tonnes yearly . |
| 13 | He escaped and managed to get to England while they were still alive , but nobody took his stories seriously and by the time they knew better it was too late . |