By the mid Oligocene, Creodonts supplanted both the Mesonychids, and giant flightless predatory birds entirely in North America, Eurasia and Africa, and in turn, competed with their own relatives, the Carnivorans.

By the late Oligocene, all superfamilies and most families of caviomorphs are present in the fossil record.

`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

By 1965, several or all of these systems will have been fully tested and their reliability established.

By recognizing and helping Juniors get interested in the dog world, all will be helping to create future dog owners.

By this scheme, pulling one signal to clear locks all the other switch and signal levers in safe positions until the first signal is again restored to normal.

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 the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

By 1960 there were such schools in all but 4 states.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

: By all admired, and by all reverenced ;

By ancient common law it might be required of all persons above the age of 12, and it was repeatedly used as a test for the disaffected.

By October 1993, Armenian forces succeeded in occupying almost all of former NKAO, Lachin and large areas in southwestern Azerbaijan.

By the late 5th century BC, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Ourania, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite " of all the folk ," born from Zeus and Dione.

By no means do all Jews today believe in reincarnation, but belief in reincarnation is not uncommon among many Jews, including Orthodox.

Proof: By symmetry, it suffices to prove that there is some constant c such that for all bitstrings s

By " chance ", he means all those particular comprehensible events which the viewer considers possible in accord with their experience.

By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.

By 2000, all full-time, undergraduate Acadia students were taking part in the initiative.

By decree of pope Leo X they were created papal nobles, ranking as Comes palatinus (' Count Palatine '), familiars and members of the papal household, so that they might enjoy all the privileges of domestic prelates and of prelates in actual attendance on the Pope, as regards plurality of benefices as well as expectives.

By all accounts, AMOS was extremely fast among interpreted languages.

By 1993, all of the fixed-wing aircraft of the original EHV ( with the exception of the two old Nord 262 transports ) had been taken out of service, and either scrapped, sold off, or abandoned.

By using the appropriate version any one of these factors can be determined for any combination of the other three.

Reports Jim Lendrum: `` By studying men on the job, we found that two men -- a carpenter and a helper -- can lay a floor faster than three.

By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.

By rough estimate her Committee, headed by Henry Francis Du Pont, contains three times as many Republicans as Democrats.

By the time he had smoked three cigarettes he had calmed down.

By having three stations, a total of three different cars can be operated on at the same time, each one at a different stage of its assembly.

By age three, however, her mother changed her name to Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, after her own mother.

By his marriage to Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera Alexios had three daughters:

By his wife Eurydice, Amyntas had three sons, Alexander II, Perdiccas III and the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II of Macedon.

By his first wife, whose name is not known, he had three children:

By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.

By his advice Benedict became a hermit and for three years, unknown to men, lived in this cave above the lake.

By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

By 03: 00, after more than three hours of close quarter combat, Majestic had lost its main and mizzen masts while Tonnant was a dismasted hulk.

By 1781 three more societies had been established in Birmingham, with a fourth in the nearby town of Dudley ; and 19 more formed in Birmingham between 1782 and 1795.

Boroughs proliferated in the suburban areas of the larger cities: By the 1980s there were 19 boroughs and three cities in the area that is now the City of Auckland.

By the next day the Doge and the leading Franks were installed in the Great Palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days.

By 1604, Charles was three and a half and was by then able to walk the length of the great hall at Dunfermline Palace unaided.

By 1943 however, large numbers of fleet and light carriers became available, which required larger formations of three or four carriers.

By three years, infants will move further away from their mothers.

By the time of the national assembly elections in December 1992, only three had qualified.

By 1916 the three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.