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

By early summer, he wrote from Laramie that he was suffering from the wound inflicted in the ambush and was in a bad way financially, so Pels sent him a draft for $100, warning that it was still not wise for him to return.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

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

By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.

By the time of his relatively early death at the age of 51, Erlang created the field of telephone networks analysis.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

By early June, Nami was living in apartment 1504 at the Delray Racquet Club condominiums with Saeed al-Ghamdi in Delray Beach, Florida.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

By the early 19th century, the threat of plague had diminished, but it was quickly replaced by a new disease.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

By the early 2000s, these competitions were named Comic Idol ( in reference to Pop Idol.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.

By a strange twist, the Benedictines were not a mendicant order, but a stable, monastery-based order, and single-volume breviaries are rare from this early period.

By the time the building opened early in 1855, Desaga had made fifty of the burners for Bunsen's students.

By the early 2000s, CPU designers were thwarted from achieving higher performance from ILP techniques due to the growing disparity between CPU operating frequencies and main memory operating frequencies as well as escalating CPU power dissipation owing to more esoteric ILP techniques.

By the time Mozart arrived at age 25, in 1781, the dominant styles of Vienna were recognizably connected to the emergence in the 1750s of the early Classical style.

By the early 19th century, Kanem-Bornu was clearly an empire in decline, and in 1808 Fulani warriors conquered Ngazargamu.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

By the early twentieth century, both parties were winning increasing numbers of seats in Congress.

By early 1973, inflation had risen 800 % under Allende's presidency.

By the early 18th century, this initial portrayal was rejected by the Dominicans and Franciscans, creating a dispute among Catholics in East Asia that was known as the " Rites Controversy ".

By the end of the spring of 1961, assuming that a general business recovery gets under way, interest rates should begin to edge upward again, depending upon the vigor of the recovery and the determination with which the monetary authorities move to restrain credit availability.

By spring it would be a skeleton.

By the spring of 1863, he was ready to recruit black troops in more than token numbers.

By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.

By the spring of 1917, many Black Hand leaders, including Apis, had been arrested.

By the spring of 1918, the commission had several teams.

By habit, Young restricted his practice throws in spring training.

By the spring of 1794, forced collection of food was not sufficient to feed even Paris and the days of the Committee were numbered.

By 8500-7500 BC the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) culture developed out of the earlier local tradition of Natufian in Southern Palestine, dwelling in round houses, and building the first defensive site at Jericho ( guarding a valuable fresh water spring ).

By spring 1941, following Himmler's orders, ten concentration camps had been constructed in which inmates were subjected to forced labour.

By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.

Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Sam Peckinpah, but completed by Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death.

By the spring of 1864, 8, 000 Navajo men, women and children were forced to march or ride in wagons 300 miles ( 480 km ) from Fort Canby to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

By the spring of 2001 they were posing a major threat to the Taylor government.

By spring 1942, he was considering involvement in war work.

By 1996, the club was set to build a new ballpark near the site of County Stadium, which would have a retractable roof to counter the unpredictable Wisconsin weather in the spring and autumn.

By late spring the Roman army numbers more than 60, 000 soldiers, including auxiliaries and troops of king Agrippa II.

By the spring of 1956 they had a near-final design, which was awarded a preproduction contract for 1, 000 M18A1 claymores designated T-48E1 during testing.

By 1825 there were usually two brigades, each setting out from opposite ends of the route, Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District on the lower Columbia River and the other from York Factory on Hudson Bay, in spring and passing each other in the middle of the continent.

By the spring of 1969, Biafra had assembled five MFI-9Bs in Gabon, calling them " Biafra Babies ".

By the spring of 1895, his busy and tiring schedule led to poor health.

By the following spring, he had begun to exert influence over elections to the Commons.

By 1825 the Hudson's Bay Company started using two brigades, each setting out from opposite ends of the express route — one from Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River and the other from York Factory on Hudson Bay — in spring and passing each other in the middle of the continent.

By this time, it was mostly irrelevant, since by early spring the balloon offensive was almost over.

By treating wheat seeds with moisture as well as cold, Lysenko induced them to bear a crop when planted in spring.