Example sentences of "by [adj] time there " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time there were three supersonic contenders for the medium term : the English Electric Company 's P-1 , which later became the Lightning , the Saunders Roe P-177 , which combined jet with rocket propulsion ; and the Fairey delta-winged PD-2 , in which Peter Twiss wrested the air speed record from the Americans in 1956 with a speed of 1,132 m.p.h . |
| 2 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 3 | If our saboteur 's got an ounce of sense , by that time there wo n't be anything incriminating to find . ’ |
| 4 | By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle . |
| 5 | Jancey was sleeping , but Darius is a bright-eyed little blighter , and by that time there 's others in this block up and about too . |
| 6 | By that time there was already an appreciation that very substantial currents of water were necessary to transport coarse sediments but , without systematic means of establishing precisely the sizes of particles and the range of particle sizes within a deposit , little scientific advance was made . |
| 7 | By that time there were several other patients to be seen , including two for employment medicals . |
| 8 | No they think that er by that time there 'll be er alternative sources of energy , I E the sun , the elements , the wind , so we wo n't need as much oil . |
| 9 | By this time there was a Land Rover and an unmarked escort [ car ] at the scene … |
| 10 | By this time there was a great interest in how he had overcome his problem when so many other treatments had failed . |
| 11 | By this time there was quite a crowd gathered in our little room . |
| 12 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 13 | By this time there was no need for me to deny hunger : I felt none . |
| 14 | By this time there had been significant changes from the 1981–85 baseline in casualty distribution by age and road user type both locally and nationally . |
| 15 | By this time there were already suspicions that these atoms were not , after all , indivisible . |
| 16 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 17 | But by this time there was something very obviously missing from her play . |