Example sentences of "by the [num ord] year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the second year of life the child is capable of physical independence to a marked degree . |
| 2 | By the second year of contracting , consortia arrangements and outright mergers between districts to increase leverage and pool risk became increasingly common . |
| 3 | By the first year of the new century — 1901 — the numbers without formal education of some kind were , roughly speaking , halved in all four denominations . |
| 4 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 5 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 6 | By the fourth year of secondary school this approach has been largely abandoned in the schemes reported . |
| 7 | Some light on the date of the accession of Wulfhere 's brother and successor , Aethelred , is shed by the proceedings of the council of Hatfield , dated by reference to 17 September of the Eighth Indiction and by the tenth year of Ecgfrith , king of the Humbrians , the seventh of Hlothhere , king of Kent , and the sixth of Aethelred , king of the Mercians ( HE IV , 17 ) . |
| 8 | Stalin and Molotov suddenly at a meeting of the Council of Commissars … proposed that the control figures of the plan be increased twofold … in June 1930 , Stalin suddenly announced sharp increases in the goals — for pig iron , from 10 million to 17 million tons by the last year of the plan ; for tractors , from 55,000 to 170,000 ; for other agricultural machinery and trucks , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 9 | By the last year of the war , when he was seventy-seven , he was a rather decrepit old man , living in a rather decrepit old house . |