Example sentences of "by [num] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 2 am the pound was up two pfennigs against Wednesday 's price for the German mark to stand at DM 2.87 . |
| 2 | I said we 'll have a barrel of Guinness ready by six okay no probs . |
| 3 | By six o'clock the water had n't arrived and Haverford , looking at their despondent faces , said , ‘ It 's like a death in the family . ’ |
| 4 | By six o'clock the ground will be covered with cageots , the chip vegetable and fruit baskets , making a sea of soft colours " and shadowy shapes in the dawn light . |
| 5 | By 2040 only a handful of currency dealers remained , huddled in tatty offices in Tirana and Ulan Bator , trading the lek against the tugrik . |
| 6 | By 11 a.m. the bombardment intensified to the point where Campana could count the shells raining down on two neighbouring companies at a rate of five a minute . |
| 7 | By 5 pm the drink was consumed and the body of the kirk was getting high on the spirits ! |
| 8 | By 5 am the guns of both batteries had been spiked as planned , by having iron wedges driven into their touch-holes , and the two groups had met as agreed and set about their work of destruction . |
| 9 | But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky . |
| 10 | By ten o'clock the town was only half-lit and many of the smaller back streets not at all . |
| 11 | But Eileen did n't sleep , and by nine o'clock the pain had become stronger . |
| 12 | By twelve o'clock the meeting of senior scientists in the Director 's office to discuss the furniture and equipment for the new Laboratory was over , and Howarth rang for his secretary to clear the conference table . |
| 13 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 14 | By 9 a.m. the shore party reported a swift victory and shortly after the first reluctant emigrant arrived at the ship 's side . |
| 15 | By 1967 even the refugees , the last vestige of things Palestinian to the outside world , had become a permanent and institutionalized presence under each host government , and half of them were by then Jordanian citizens . |