By the Hellenic period, the Alexandrian school made elegy its favorite and most highly developed form.

By 313 BC, Hellenic ideas had begun their almost 250-year expansion into the Near East, Middle East, and Central Asian cultures.

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

By intervening against the tyrants of Sicyon, Corinth and Athens, Sparta thus came to assume Hellenic leadership prior to the Persian invasions.

By linking all the Greek, Greek-American and Cypriot students of the American educational institutions, the organization can promote ideas and projects and enrich the Hellenic spirit on campuses nationwide.

By the end of 1999, Banbury trailed Hellenic League leaders Highworth Town by 19 points.

By 150 BC, Assyria was under the control of the Parthian Empire as Athura ( the Parthian word for Assyria ) where the Assyrian city of Ashur seems to have gained a degree of autonomy, and temples to the native gods of Assyria were resurrected.

By about 250 BC, the Parthian dynasty brought the Persian Gulf under their control and extended their influence as far as Oman.

By the time of Classical Antiquity and the Parthian and Sassanid Empires in Iran, iron swords were common.

By this time, the entire Iranian Plateau had been lost to Parthian control.

By about 130 BC, the Parthian dynasty brought the Persian Gulf under their control and extended their influence as far as Oman.

By the end of the 5th century, the ancient Arsacid royal house of Albania, a branch of the ruling dynasty of Parthia, became extinct, and in the 6th century it was replaced by princes of the Persian or Parthian Mihranid family, who claimed descent from the Sassanids.

By replacing the weak Parthian realm with a strong, centralized state, it changed the political orientation of Iberia away from Rome.

By year ’ s end, Cassius had travelled to the south and crossed Mesopotamia at its narrowest point and proceeded to attack the twin Parthian cities on the Tigris river, Seleucia on the right bank, and Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, on the left.

By 63 BC / BCE, the partially Hellenized territory had come under Roman imperial rule as a valued crossroads to trading territories and buffer state against the Parthian Empire.

By trying to be both a serious survey of a bygone era and a showcase for today's artists, the program turned out to be a not-quite-perfect example of either.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

By 1987, with Yzerman, now the captain following the departure of Danny Gare, joined by Petr Klima, Adam Oates, Gerard Gallant, defenseman Darren Veitch and new head coach Jacques Demers, the Wings won a playoff series for only the second time in the modern era.

By the 1920s, the U. S. reached what is still its era of greatest-ever output, producing an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82 % of the global total ( Eyman, 1997 ).

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

By the swing era, big bands were coming to rely more on arranged music: arrangements were either written or learned by ear and memorized — many early jazz performers could not read music.

By June 2003, the lower house of Parliament announced that President Akayev and two other " puppet " leaders of Kyrgyzstan, from the Soviet era, would be given lifetime immunity from prosecution, raising the prospect of Akayev finally stepping down.

By the end of the Renaissance the number of courses had grown to ten, and during the Baroque era the number continued to grow until it reached 14 ( and occasionally as many as 19 ).

By the end of the era, the continents had rifted into nearly their present form.

By 1860, England removed the last vestiges of the mercantile era.

By 1947, there would be approximately 22, 000 motor courts in operation in the US alone ; a typical 50-room motel in that era cost $ 3000 per room in initial construction costs, compared to $ 12, 000 per room for metropolitan city hotel construction.

By the 1950s, an era of every woman being able to own her own pearl necklace had begun, and natural pearls were reduced to a small, exclusive niche in the pearl industry.

By being translated as well as imitated, Plautus was a major influence on comedy of the Elizabethan era.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

By the 17th century the influence of Renaissance painting resulted in Russian icons becoming slightly more realistic, while still following most of the old icon painting canons, as seen in the works of Bogdan Saltanov, Simon Ushakov, Gury Nikitin, Karp Zolotaryov and other Russian artists of the era.

By the height of the silent era, movies were the single largest source of employment for instrumental musicians ( at least in America ).

By late 1986, the Mikhail Gorbachev era was stressing anew the importance of individual rights in relation to the state and criticizing those who violated procedural law in implementing Soviet justice.

By the late Republican era, slavery had become a vital economic pillar in the wealth of Rome, as well as a very significant part of Roman society.

By the latter part of the century it had acquired a slightly arcane quality associated with the era of variety, but the term is still in active use .<

By the end of the Soviet era, the central government had relinquished central control of water-use policy for Central Asia, but the republics had not agreed on an allocation policy.

By Morpheus's estimation, then, of there being an approximate 200 year difference between the era in the Matrix and the era of the real world, with the knowledge that Neo's time is actually the 6th incarnation of the Matrix ( and an estimated 200 years or so for each incarnation ), that could potentially mean the year in the real world is closer to the year 3399.

By the Greco-Roman era, many of them were considered healers, and were said to have other special powers, including dream interpretation and the ability to control the weather, which they did by braiding or not combing their hair.

By the Late Republican era, increasing competition among the competitive military-political adventurers who ran Rome's nascent empire ensured that triumphs became more frequent, drawn out and extravagant, prolonged in some cases by several days of public games and entertainments.

By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold 250, 000 units and was second-place behind the VCS.

By 1 July 1933 there were 1, 463 working camps with 250, 000 junior enrollees ( 18 – 25 years of age ), 28, 000 veterans, 14, 000 American Indians, and 25, 000 Locally Enrolled ( or Experienced ) Men ( LEM ).

By 1971, 250, 000 Cubans made use of this program.

By 1980 there were more than 250 ; by 1996 there were more than 450.

By comparison, the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout were priced at US $ 1500, Kirk's Yale side-entrance US $ 1, 000, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for US $ 650, Western's Gale Model A was US $ 500, a Brush Runabout US $ 485, the Black started at $ 375, and the Success hit the amazingly low US $ 250.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

By the end of World War Two, the US had built eight new wind tunnels, including the largest one in the world at Moffett Field near Sunnyvale, California, which was designed to test full size aircraft at speeds of less than 250 mph and a vertical wind tunnel at Wright Field, Ohio, where the wind stream is upwards for the testing of models in spin situations and the concepts and engineering designs for the first primitive helicopters flown in the US.

By 1788, the population existed as 250 individual nations, many of which were in alliance with one another, and within each nation there existed several clans, from as few as five or six to as many as 30 or 40.

By 1998, UPI had fewer than 250 employees and 12 offices.

By Griffith Jones ' death, in 1761, it is estimated that up to 250, 000 people had learnt to read in schools throughout Wales.

By the time of Herodotus ( c. 475 BC ), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2, 857 km from the city of Susa on the Karun ( 250 km east of the Tigris ) to the port of Smyrna ( modern İzmir in Turkey ) on the Aegean Sea.

By 1955, Ferryfield handled 250, 000 passengers annually.

By 1935, there were 3, 500, 000 African Americans ( men, women and children ) on relief, almost 35 percent of the African-American population ; plus another 250, 000 African-American adults were working on WPA projects.

By 1980, over 250 women were playing professionally, and the tour consisted of 47 global events, offering a total of $ 7. 2 million in prize money.

By this time she was earning $ 250, 000 to $ 300, 000 a film — an unprecedented salary for an actor — and had become a world-wide multimillion dollar industry.

By 1966 over 250, 000 recorders had been sold in the US alone and Japan soon became the major source of recorders.

By the end of the 1940 ′ s however, Rank had ran up an overdraft of £ 16 million ( the equivalent of £ 364. 5 million in 2012 ), mainly due to big budget flops such as the 1946 Caesar and Cleopatra, which was originally budgeted at £ 250, 000., but which eventually cost £ 1, 278, 000 ( the equivalent of £ 33 million ) and many of the studios famous directors being lured away by rival companies who promised greater independence.

By 1995 there were 250 LETSystems in Australia, with Western Australia having 43 separate systems serving a population of 2. 3 million ( although actual participation is by only a tiny fraction of that population ) making it then the region with the highest LETS coverage in the world.

By the mid-1920s there were about 250 National auto trails.

By 1971, over £ 250 million had been spent on the project, with Europa 2 costing over £ 4 million.

By the time the conference was held, more than 250, 000 Jews had fled Germany and Austria, which had been annexed by Germany in March 1938.

By 250 BC, a new temple complex the ' Head Temple ' ( Akkadian: Bīt Reš ) was added to northeast of the Uruk period Anu district.