By World War II, most fighters were all-metal monoplanes armed with batteries of machine guns or cannons and some were capable of speeds approaching 400 mph.

By the end of the Carboniferous, when levels had lowered to something approaching today's, around 17 times more water was lost per unit of uptake.

By the 1850s, when a major covered bridge was constructed at Philippi to service travellers on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, the County's population was approaching 10, 000 people.

By the end of the 1982 season, both Ryan and Steve Carlton were approaching Walter Johnson's all-time strikeout record, sometimes passing one another's career totals in successive starts.

By 105 the king of Mauretania, Bocchus I, who was also Jugurtha's father-in-law and reluctant ally, was worried about the approaching Romans.

By 1954, Willow Creek was Alaska's largest gold mining district, with a total production approaching 18 million dollars.

By 1970 the city had a population approaching 7, 000 people.

By the late 1930s the British definition was " that height at which a directly approaching target at 400 mph can be engaged for 20 seconds before the gun reaches 70 degrees elevation ".

By 1800 the population was about 1400: 60 years later it was approaching 3700.

By 1929, several of the children were approaching the age to attend university and the family sought to move somewhere of a more congenial educational climate than Spain.

By now, the First Division had finally crossed the river and the Russians by the Greater Redoubt saw approaching below them the Grenadier Guards on the right of the British line, the Scots Fusilier Guards in the centre and the Coldstream Guards on the left.

By the end of his first season he had restored the orchestra to something approaching its normal complement.

By about 300 million years ago ( Pennsylvanian Period ) Africa was approaching the North American craton.

By now, Cöln, Strassburg and Ariadne had sailed from Wilhelmshaven to join the German defence, while Mainz was approaching from a different direction.

By the early 1960s computer designs were approaching the point of diminishing returns.

By early 2000, with the deadline for Cannes approaching, Wong was contacted by the director of Cannes, who encouraged him to quickly complete a final cut, and offered a constructive criticism about the title.

By 4 September, the rebel forces were approaching Madrid.

By day, crappie tend to be less active and to concentrate around weed beds or submerged objects, such as logs and boulders ; they feed especially at dawn and dusk, moving then into open water or approaching the shore.

By July 1862, Union forces were approaching the territorial capital of Mesilla and the Confederates escaped to Texas.

By on the following day, it was upgraded to a hurricane, while curving northwestward and approaching Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.

By reversing the ester of the meperidine skeleton, a then-legally uncontrolled drug approaching the potency of morphine was produced.

By late 1941, Hitler controlled almost all continental Europe, and German forces were approaching Moscow.

By 2006 EWS's turnover was approaching £ 1 billion, while profit was £ 14 million.

By this point, however, the Germans had built pontoon bridges over the canal, and were approaching the British positions in great strength.

By April 1912, with the Antarctic winter approaching, it was apparent to Cherry and the remaining expedition members that the South Pole team would not return.

By monitoring spam reports from places such as spamcop, AOL's feedback loop, and Network Abuse Clearinghouse, the domain's abuse @ mailbox, etc., ISPs can often learn of problems before they seriously damage the ISP's reputation and have their mail servers blacklisted.

By writing a description of another world, the D ' ni created " linking books " which served as portals to the worlds described, known as Ages.

By the 1990s the area had become a low-income, predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood, its glass portals gated and swimming pools filled in.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

By the time dBASE for Windows eventually shipped, the developer community had moved on to other products such as Clipper or FoxBase and dBASE never regained significant share of Ashton-Tate's former market.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

By the 1980s many colleges had recognised a community need for computer training and since then thousands of people have been up-skilled through IT courses.

By the later 3rd century, however, some Christians began to express dissatisfaction with the custom of relying on the Jewish community to determine the date of Easter.

By the 1970s the science fiction community was confronting questions of feminism and sexism within science fiction culture itself.

By ancient tradition, Basques, and indeed other peoples in Medieval Europe, held assemblies under a tree, usually an oak, to discuss matters affecting the community.

By placing parentheses around Pasadena City College, a nearby community college, Mudd students changed the sign to read:

By the early monarchy El and Yahweh had become unified and Asherah did not continue as a separate state cult, although she continued to be popular at a community level until Persian times.

By 1819 the Harmonites had built 150 log homes, a church, a community storehouse, barns, stables, and a tavern, along with thriving shops and mills, and cleared land for farming.

By making wiki links simpler to type for the members of a particular community, these features help bring the different wikis closer together.

By 1937, the members had made the decision to create a new language, to the surprise of the world's interlanguage community.

By 25 May 1993, the international community had tried to pressure the leaders of the former Yugoslavian republics diplomatically, militarily, politically, economically, and – with Resolution 827 – through juridical means.

By 1980, a number of national computer facilities ( ULCC London, UMRCC Manchester, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory serving the Science and Engineering Research Council community ), each with their own star network had developed.

By the early 2000s, community development issues and resettlements became mainstreamed in Bank mining projects.

By the late 19th century, Nazareth was a town with a strong Arab Christian presence and a growing European community, where a number of communal projects were undertaken and new religious buildings were erected.

By not outing gay Bishops who support policies which harm homosexuals, we would be protecting those Bishops and thereby allowing them to continue to inflict suffering on members of our community.

By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial unit but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it.

By sacred things he meant things " set apart and forbidden — beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them ".

By the late 1990s, the message board forum at the site had developed into a thriving community with a large number of regular members and contributors worldwide.

By adopting this Responsum, the CJLS found itself in a position to provide a considered Jewish-law justification for its egalitarian practices, without having to rely on potentially unconvincing arguments, undermine the religious importance of community and clergy, ask individual women intrusive questions, repudiate the halakhic tradition, or label women following traditional practices as sinners.

By doing this he wishes to establish within the younger members of his community a scheme to discern right and wrong actions through the powers of the mind.

By the 15th century, its authority in the Spanish Jewish community was such that Joseph ibn Shem-Tov drew from it arguments in his attacks against Maimonides, and even representatives of non-mystical Jewish thought began to assert its sacredness and invoke its authority in the decision of some ritual questions.

By 1523, a Karaite community, consisting of 10 families, is recorded as living in Hebron, It was from them that, in 1540, Rabbi Malkiel Ashkenazi bought a courtyard ( El Cortijo ) and the house of prayer which he converted to the Sephardi Abraham Avinu Synagogue.

By 1850, the Jewish population consisted of 60 Sephardi families and a 30-year old Ashkenazi community of 50 families.