Example sentences of "by which time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this only becomes valuable when you are below 1000 feet , by which time , of course , you will have moved closer to the gliding site or nearer to a suitable field if you are flying across country . |
| 2 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 3 | Fourteen additional units were authorised in May 1986 , by which time traffic on the Midland electrified lines had increased by 50 per cent since electrification . |
| 4 | The group was finally disbanded in 1969 , by which time China had been plunged into virtual anarchy and economic collapse . |
| 5 | In fact , months of wrangling between the band 's manager and the record company usually ends with the band being dropped , by which time the other record companies who initially showed interest have gone cold . |
| 6 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 7 | Despite the memorandum by Keynes referred to above , the foreign exchange aspect of overseas government expenditure was conspicuously absent from the debate in the Defence Committee from its beginnings in 1946 right through to August 1947 , by which time it may be argued that the damage had largely already been done . |
| 8 | The police arrived three hours later , by which time the seige of the Bengali homes had ended … |
| 9 | The incident occurred on lap 50 , by which time Mansell had already ground to a halt with no gears . |
| 10 | It meant she did n't know whether the foetus carried the disease until she was twenty-one weeks pregnant , by which time abortion is very difficult both physically and emotionally . |
| 11 | The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game , by which time Horner had begun to dig in . |
| 12 | He wanted to do a bit before New York and it worked because before the tour started , there was very little interest in New York , but it sold out in Cleveland which we knew it would , and both shows were great , by which time word got back to New York instantly , as it does , and by the time the show at Carnegie Hall happened , it was sold out . |
| 13 | Research on the fast breeder reactor started in the United States in 1945 and the answers extracted by the committee indicated that the product was unlikely to be needed until practically the middle of the twenty-first century , by which time uranium resources would be running low and prices accordingly high . |
| 14 | Should he wait for a year , by which time the quarrel between Hindus and Muslims over the disputed Ayodhya mosque will have cooled down ? |
| 15 | Night fishermen fished at the outflow to the power station until morning , by which time they were dizzy , vomiting constantly , and their skin had acquired a nut-brown nuclear tan . |
| 16 | In the unsuccessful sample the initial ratio was lower — 46.4% — but it then rose to 52.7% by the third year and 71.1% in the fourth ( by which time only four of the nine buy-outs survived ) . |
| 17 | Fredericks and Greenidge thought this an excellent idea and hammered 182 in two hours twenty minutes without being separated , by which time England were just demoralized . |
| 18 | This we did — by which time we had both calmed down a little . |
| 19 | After verse 2 even the city itself remains nameless until verse 25 , by which time it is all over . |
| 20 | HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning , by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops . |
| 21 | Remarkably , the first sighting of Dr Johnson 's ‘ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ’ was in The New Republic in March 1989 ; by which time such a bedrock of well-meaning patriotism had been wedged under the case that it proved difficult , if not impossible , to shift . |
| 22 | ELLEN 'S LETTER ARRIVED the following week by which time life could be said , by all but the most observant , to have returned to normal . |
| 23 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 24 | Civil war — even if very low-key civil war — had begun , and would last until July 1560 , by which time the regent herself would be dead . |
| 25 | Years later family history repeats itself with Eve 's daughters , by which time Dolly has forsaken the screen and gone into the fancy confectionery trade . |
| 26 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 27 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 28 | Another big reshuffle could come in 18 months to two years , by which time Mr Patten could be back in Parliament and Mr Douglas Hurd , having helped lead Britain 's presidency of the EC in the second half of this year , may have decided to step down as Foreign Secretary to pursue another career . |
| 29 | Millar and Big Ben , winners of the World Cup in 1988 and 1989 , have almost the best draw of all , last but one , by which time the Canadian will know exactly what he needs to do . |
| 30 | The date of the plaque on the Swan Lane wall is 1686 , by which time it was considered that the Garden had become ‘ effectively arranged ’ . |