Example sentences of "[that] by this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am reasonably sure that by this time any fair-minded reader with a spark of decency will readily acknowledge that all the apparent similarities between Daniel Miller and myself have been more than satisfactorily explained . |
| 2 | Ironically , the most successful and varied stage of Hardy 's architectural career came under Crickmay between 1869 and 1872 , despite the fact that by this time he was working on a freelance basis while writing his first novels . |
| 3 | This substitute would most likely have been an animal , and it is reasonable to assume that by this time animals were , to some extent at least , tamed if not domesticated . |
| 4 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 5 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 6 | Also one can not overlook the fact that by this time ( 18 March ) the chemists believed that they had evidence for neutrons and that those neutrons had the energies expected for fusion products . |
| 7 | FACT THREE is that by this time next week umpteen other life-changing events will have shaken the respectable residents of the comfy Melbourne cul-de-sac . |
| 8 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 9 | The careers of other scholars of the period who reached the highest mevleviyets likewise suggest that by this time teaching on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn had become customary , the top level being composed of the Suleymaniye medreses and the later imperial medreses , such as those of Selim II and Murad III . |
| 10 | I lie there light-headed on the pillow at half-past four in the morning , knowing that anyway it 's nearly over , that by this time tomorrow we 'll have done it , that by this time the next day I 'll be out of the country . |
| 11 | I lie there light-headed on the pillow at half-past four in the morning , knowing that anyway it 's nearly over , that by this time tomorrow we 'll have done it , that by this time the next day I 'll be out of the country . |
| 12 | According to the Legend — the propaganda of a papacy that by this time was endeavouring to assert its independence of the emperor — on the eighth day after his conversion , the Emperor Constantine divested himself of the imperial symbols , prostrated himself before Pope Sylvester and laid down his crown . |
| 13 | One demand made during the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 was that entry fines should not exceed the value of two years ' rent , so it is likely that by this time , when a rising population was creating a shortage of land , some landlords were seeking more . |
| 14 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 15 | Ms Davis said that by this time the girl 's mother had learned of her disappearance and was told that the child had been sighted with the defendant , who was ‘ well known in the area and well known to police ’ . |