Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 2 | It was 2 a.m. by the time I joined Kenneth Cranham and his wife , Fiona Victory , in the lounge of the University Arms Hotel . |
| 3 | Moira had two sisters , Marjory and Jeanette , who were 14 and 7 respectively at the time of the disappearance . |
| 4 | Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp . |
| 5 | Furthermore , he ordered the emancipation of all slaves in the possession of British subjects residing in Zanzibar ; it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 up to the time of his leaving Zanzibar . |
| 6 | The practical effect of this is illustrated by the case of Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 629 where at the time of entering the contract the business was exclusively a credit-betting business and it was accepted by all parties that the validity of the covenant fell to be tested without regard to the fact that subsequently betting shops became legal and that a betting shop had been set up by the plaintiff . |
| 7 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 8 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
| 9 | So you arrive Friday night at night , seven thirty so by the time you got your hotel and checked in , da da da , it 's nine o'clock at night . |
| 10 | Well I thought if I have a walk over there at two then by the time I get back it 'll be time to go and get Christopher wo n't it ? |
| 11 | And , as she had invited her to have another look around , it was almost seven o'clock by the time Leith turned into the select avenue of her present home . |
| 12 | However , Moira had two sisters , Marjory and Jeanette , who were 14 and seven respectively at the time of the disappearance . |
| 13 | The changes brought an inflow of new firms , with twenty seven initially at the time of Big Bang , as opposed to eight jobbers previously , and capitalisation was increased . |