Example sentences of "and by [num] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1842 France had only 350 route miles and by 1850 only I , 870 , compared with Germany 's 3,735 miles and Britain 's 6,621 . |
| 2 | Here , the measures were instituted in 1982 and by 1984 c. 26 000 ha of desert had been restored and the shifting dunes fixed . |
| 3 | As the climate improved , woodland dominated by birch and pine developed , and by 8000 BC dense deciduous woodland covered almost all of the country . |
| 4 | The rate of urbanization increased after 1868 , and by 1920 nearly one-third of Japan 's population lived in towns of over 10,000 people . |
| 5 | However , during the eighteenth century it came into competition with the Longhorns and Shorthorns and by 1790 very few pure Gloucester herds remained . |
| 6 | By the year 2020 there will be about 8,100 million , and by 2100 perhaps 11,300 million , or more than twice present levels . |