Example sentences of "by [num] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1935 the Trotskyists had succeeded in organizing an effective group within the ILP . |
| 2 | By 1971 the processes of urban decentralization and deconcentration had , despite some modest growth in absolute numbers , reduced these proportions to 33 per cent . |
| 3 | By 1971 the facts of central area deprivation were clear enough and a set of disjointed and somewhat tentative initiatives in the older , inner parts of our big cities unfolded ( Home , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | By 1620 the alewives controlled the Dublin trade . |
| 5 | By 1834 the wheels were supplemented by a steam engine . |
| 6 | By 1991 the rankings of investing countries had changed dramatically . |
| 7 | By 1979 the provinces themselves had become ungovernable , with even the Elector Counts facing rivals and rebellions within their own lands . |
| 8 | By 1786 the magistrates of Salford were much impressed with their influence . |
| 9 | By 1946 the requirements of the naval depot had reduced to such an extent that it was only necessary to provide a thrice-weekly service . |
| 10 | By 1941 the arguments of some of its own members and the increasingly acerbic comments of the inspectorate succeeded , and the committee abandoned dictation . |
| 11 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |
| 12 | Whatever the causes of this rapid decline in port activities — containerization , competition , labour disputes , poor management or manning practices — by 1981 the docks had to all intents and purposes closed . |
| 13 | In 1947 German coal and steel production stood at 130 million tons and 3 million tons respectively — by 1952 the figures were 208 million tons and almost 16 million tons . |
| 14 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 15 | But if you were n't in by ten the doors were locked . |
| 16 | Few sailing ships could reach the town , so by 1670 the merchants created a new port . |
| 17 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |
| 18 | In the Duma elections of 1912 the Bolsheviks won six of the nine curias reserved for workers and by 1914 the Mensheviks had lost control of the trade unions and social insurance councils in the Moscow and St Petersburg regions to their more radical rivals . |
| 19 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |
| 20 | One by one the students returned , filling the corridors and the public rooms with cheerful noise . |
| 21 | Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station . |
| 22 | One by one the Brownies stepped forward . |
| 23 | ( One by one the PLAYERS emerge , impossibly , from the barrel , and form a casually menacing circle round ROS and GUIL who are still appalled and mesmerised . ) |
| 24 | One by one the members of the crowd trickled out into the fête , carrying with them the news of Phipps 's death . |
| 25 | We worked together as a Club on this project , but one by one the members dropped by the wayside , until the good lady decided it was n't worth wasting the petrol coming to collect such a few items . |
| 26 | One by one the teachers squared their shoulders and assumed the burden of the festivities . |
| 27 | One by one the teachers made their ways to their homes — modest , mostly celibate , mostly cheerless homes . |
| 28 | One by one the visitors returned to join him . |
| 29 | One by one the riders fell , not without causing loss themselves : three of the villagers lay in their own gore , and one had been blinded by slingshot in the confusion of the raid . |
| 30 | As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books . |