Example sentences of "[num] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 2 | I 'll be near forty by the time she 's ready for marriage , and that 's a lifetime away ; and it 's your lifetime away , too . |
| 3 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 4 | But he was 72 and would be 73 by the time he had to move if he moved . |
| 5 | Patel 's seventh-wicket pairing with Cairns had reached record proportions on Day 4 by the time , when 97 , he pulled Lewis towards the midwicket boundary and sensed a first Test century . |
| 6 | So yes your spouse might be getting all your assets , but if you 're going o be seventy five or eighty by the time you 've gone and your spouse is seventy four or seventy nine or whatever , he or she may be a little bit past the running around that 's necessary the actual practicality of it . |
| 7 | Numbers had swelled to eighty by the time the group reached the old Tartar Frigate Inn and poured onto the pier . |
| 8 | That stretched to 13 by the time it rolled in at 11.47 to loudspeaker apologies reporting technical problems at Peterborough . |
| 9 | It must have been around two-forty-five by the time I 'd packed up my stuff . |
| 10 | We were just in our early twenties by the time I left The Pistols , beginning to find our way in the world , starting to get more confidence . |
| 11 | This child might be fifteen by the time the marriage took place . |
| 12 | Get out at twelve By the time you 've had an hour in there swimming you know how busy when you 're swimming lengths what with the diving in . |
| 13 | It is past nine by the time we start to harness the dogs , and the sky is a little clearer , the temperature a little cooler . |
| 14 | It was well after nine by the time we got rid of them . ’ |
| 15 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 16 | It was half-past two by the time I made it . ’ |
| 17 | Tom ( left ) will be six and Kate ( right ) four by the time next year when Alison , as part of the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest . |
| 18 | As the population of the mainland colonies rose to 2.25 million by the time of the revolution of 1776 , it suffered no decline in per capita income . |
| 19 | The national debt surged from its 1756 level of £74.6 million to reach £231 million by the end of the American war in 1783 and £820 million by the time of Waterloo . |
| 20 | Shrewdly invested , that sum had turned into nearly £50 million by the time that planning applications , investigations of builders and a two-year public inquiry had been negotiated . |
| 21 | Swan had made half-a-million by the time he was thirty , he had chaired the Planning Committee of the Arden District Council for the past ten years , and he was not the sort to give in easily . |
| 22 | Winston Benjamin had already claimed the prize scalp of Gooch for eight by the time Agnew peeled off his sweater . |
| 23 | Estimates of these costs put the average direct costs of a baby for the first year at at least £1 500 , running to £30 000 by the time the child reaches 16 . |
| 24 | In practice , the number of members denied reselection was small ( only seven by the time the 1983 general election was called ) , but the issue served to highlight the more overt emphasis placed by Labour activists on a candidate 's political stance than was the case on the Conservative side . |