By the time Allen reached his teens, the area, while still a difficult area in which to make a living, began to resemble a town, with wood-frame houses beginning to replace the rough cabins of the early settlers.

By his teens, art dominated Munch's interests.

By the early teens, the thymus begins to atrophy and thymic stroma is replaced by adipose ( fat ) tissue.

By October polls showed that the Bloc was up to mid forties whereas the Conservatives fell into the teens behind Liberals in their poll numbers in Quebec.

By this time, his approval ratings had dipped into the teens, and were at 11 % in a 1992 Gallup poll, making him one of the most unpopular prime ministers since opinion polling began in Canada in the 1940s.

By his teens, he was working in pen-and-ink, charcoal, watercolor, and oil — drawing from nature as well as making political cartoons.

By her early teens she had a collection of regional and national titles, having competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and high jump.

By his late teens, he was studying stained glass at the Dublin Art School.

By his teens, he had made up his mind that he wanted to be a professional boxer.

By Sidney's late teens, he was leading his own band as Sidney Simien and His All Stars, which included several members of his family.

: By the mid-1950s, post-WWII Americans were beginning to relax and enjoy both their new economic and baby booms as their offspring which were just entering their teens.

By his early teens, he had already taught himself to play piano and had formed his own gospel vocal quartet, known as " The Jubilee Boys ", that sang at church functions.

By her mid teens she grew in confidence and successfully auditioned for the school cheerleading team.

By his early teens Cantor began winning talent contests at local theaters and started appearing on stage.

By summer's end the teens are engaged, and Win buys Freud's bear and motorcycle and travels the country performing to raise money to go to Harvard, which he subsequently attends while Mary starts their family.

By his late teens he was designing successful small lightweight keel boats.

By the time Roth was in his late teens, he was singing solo as well as with a group called the Red Ball Jets.

By the time James had reached his teens, he too, had quit school, and became involved with the street gangs of Baltimore.

By the time he reached his teens, he was paying for his own education by accompanying and performing.

By the time he entered his teens, Davis was deeply into a life of crime.

By his early teens, he had held down numerous jobs and was an ardent if not very good racehorse follower.

By nightfall, cities were dealing with temperatures in the teens and single-digits on the Fahrenheit scale.

By the time she was in her early teens, McCann recorded " Down Came a Blackbird ", a song which was given to her by her manager, Kasey Walker.

By the end of his teens he had become an established hunter and horse rider-interests which remained with him for the rest of his life.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By our policy the West was -- is -- split.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.