Example sentences of "[that] by the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 2 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 3 | It is true that by the time of Law 's dismissal the number of Councils had grown to 1,005 . |
| 4 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 5 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 6 | England particularly suffered from these raids , so that by the time of the twelfth-century renaissance it was , in the words of R. W. Southern , ‘ a colony of the French intellectual empire , important in its way and quite productive , but still subordinate ’ . |
| 7 | Too bad that by the time of her own death , she was one of its few remaining practitioners . |
| 8 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 9 | It is fair to say that by the time of the establishment of OEEC progress in Benelux had more or less ground to a halt . |
| 10 | It is likely that by the time of its release in X11R6 — if that eventually happens — Fresco components could be incorporated into XT toolkits — it should be possible to have a gliff in an XT widget , for example . |
| 11 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 12 | The company soon took off , so that by the time of his death Butterley was the biggest industrial concern in Derbyshire and one of the greatest in the country . |
| 13 | The rise of the electricity industry created a new market for his engines , which proved so well suited to driving dynamos that by the time of his death over half the country 's electrical power was generated by them . |
| 14 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 15 | The idea is that by the time of the next Euro elections in 18 months , better knowledge of the EC and particularly of the role of MEPs will improve Tory fortunes at the polls . |