Example sentences of "an [noun] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he 's usually doing thirty mile an hour by the time he hits the blackberry hedge at the bottom of the pitch , never even gets a scratch as a rule . |
| 2 | The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave . |
| 3 | He was fortunate to be seen as an anti-appeaser by the time Chamberlain was negotiating with Hitler and coercing the Czechs into surrender during the Czechoslovakian crisis of September 1938 . |
| 4 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |
| 5 | The officers had grounds to suspect each appellant of having committed an offence by the time the first of the sales in which he was involved was transacted . |
| 6 | Those last high-spirited weeks at Alfoxden and Stowey were almost at an end by the time Cottle and Hazlitt left for home . |
| 7 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 8 | Breaking with his father 's strong Quaker commitments , Crowley had become an Anglican by the time of his marriage in March 1682 to Mary , daughter of Charles Owen , a Londoner from a Shropshire gentry family . |
| 9 | Last week he had hinted that it might be better to get an agreement by the time of the next European Parliament elections in June 1994 . |