By this time the main difference between light and battle cavalry was their training ; the former was regarded as a tool for harassment and reconnaissance, while the latter was considered best for close-order charges.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

By September 1977, Somalia controlled 90 % of the Ogaden and captured strategic cities such as Jijiga and put heavy pressure on Dire Dawa, threatening the train route from the latter city to Djibouti.

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 this period, a number of clans had fallen by the wayside, leaving the Reizei and the Nijo family ; the former stood for " progressive " approaches, the varied use of the " ten styles " and novelty, while the latter conservatively hewed to already established norms and the " ushin " ( deep feelings ) style that dominated courtly poetry.

By early 1942, the latter had made considerable progress into decrypting Japanese naval messages.

Lansky's 1979 computer music piece " Her Song ", from the Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion ( re-released on the album Fantasies and Tableaux, 1994 ), has also been sampled by Caural for his song " I Won't Race You ", from his 2006 album Mirrors For Eyes, with the main synthesized vocal line of Lansky's piece being used ( and being the basis for the title of the latter ).

By the latter part of the decade, Barcelona began to emerge as a force when they were crowned champions in 1945, 1948 and 1949.

By moving the latter two, both Ba ' athists, to Cairo, he neutralized important political figures who had their own ideas about how Syria should be run within the UAR.

By all accounts, her forty-year marriage to Edward had been happy, despite his adulterous affair with her lady-in-waiting, Alice Perrers, during the latter part of it.

By the latter part of 1720, however, the company had begun to collapse as the price of its shares plunged.

By moving the latter two, who were Ba ' athists, to Cairo, he neutralized important political figures who had their own ideas about how Syria should be run within the UAR.

By now he had composed several works including Estelle et Némorin and Le passage de la mer Rouge ( The Crossing of the Red Sea ) – both now lost – the latter of which convinced Lesueur to take Berlioz on as one of his private pupils.

By the latter half of 2001, however, the volume of media reports declined precipitously, and by 2002, major news organizations like the New York Times and Washington Post had almost completely ceased their coverage of Falun Gong from China.

By the 1970s he was confident and ambitious and made Vertical Features Remake and A Walk Through H. The former is an examination of various arithmetical editing structures, and the latter is a journey through the maps of a fictitious country.

By 1976, Richard Bonynge had become Musical Director and he led the company on its first overseas tour to New Zealand with Verdi's Rigoletto and Janáček's Jenůfa, the latter conducted by Georg Tintner.

By the mid-1990s, some x86 CPUs had achieved performance on a parity with RISC in some areas, such as integer performance ( albeit at the cost of greater chip complexity ), relegating the latter to even more high-end markets for the most part.

By the end of the 1870s the stage was set for discontent among the aboriginal people of the prairies: the bison population was in serious decline ( creating enormous economic difficulties ) and, in an attempt to assert control over aboriginal settlement, the federal government often violated the terms of the treaties it had signed during the latter part of the decade.

By Handel's time, castrati had come to dominate the English operatic stage as much as that of Italy ( and indeed most of Europe outside France ), and also took part in several of his oratorios, though countertenors, too, occasionally featured as soloists in the latter, the parts written for them being closer in compass to the higher ones of Purcell, with a usual range of A < sub > 3 </ sub > to E < sub > 5 </ sub >.

By the same measure, departing in this from the policy of the Eastern Empire, Majorian insisted that a marriage without dowry and pre-wedding gifts trade ( the first from the bride's family to the groom, the latter in the opposite direction ) was invalid ; simultaneously ended the practice of requesting pre-wedding gifts of a value considerably higher than the dowry.

By mid-460s, Arcadia and Zeno had been living at Constantinople for some time, where also Lallis and Longinus lived, the latter married to a Valeria, possibly a woman of aristocrat rank.

By this time only five of the eight series were still being repeated, as the rights to Series 3 expired at the end of 2004, Series 4 on 31 May 2006, and Series 5 on 30 September 2006, the latter two following a final showing of those series.

By the latter 1890's in American architectural offices, a blueprint was one-tenth the cost of a hand-traced reproduction.

By coding signals and having a cable converter box with decoding equipment in homes, the latter also enables subscription-based channels, pay-tv and pay-per-view services.

* By the latter 1800's, Amherst acquired the title Sandstone Center of the World.

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 Otto's marriage to Eilika, daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony, the Ascanians became heirs to half of the property of the House of Billung, former dukes of Saxony.

By 1000AD the Bantu colonization of the eastern half of South Africa had been completed ( but not Western Cape and Northern Cape, which are believed to have been inhabited by Khoisan people until Dutch colonisation ).

By the changes resulting from the Reformation, the territory of this see was reduced nearly one half in extent.

By cutting transportation costs in half or more it became a large profit center for Albany, New York and New York City as it allowed the cheap transportation of many of the agricultural products grown in the mid west of the United States to the rest of the world.

By 1340, Cairo had a population of close to half a million, making it the largest city west of China.

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 the late 1970s, two and a half million British homes received their television service via cable.

By this date there were finally enough films several minutes long available to fill a programme running for at least half an hour, and which could be changed weekly when the local audience became bored with it.

By 1911 there were enough independent and foreign films available to programme all the shows of the independent exhibitors, and in 1912 the independents had nearly half of the market.

By 1931, Curtiz had already been in Hollywood for half a decade, making as many as six films a year.

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

By 1982, oil would constitute half of Ghana's imports, while overall trade contracted greatly.

By contrast, a truth is contingent if it just happens to be the case, for instance, " more than half of the planet is covered by water ".

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

By 1808 the Atlantic slave trade had brought almost half a million Sub-Saharan Africans to the United States.

By the end of 1943, the Soviets occupied half of the territory taken by the Germans from 1941 – 1942.

By the first half of the 18th century, the Authorized Version was effectively unchallenged as the English translation used in Anglican and Protestant churches.

By now an enemy alien, he was moved between various internment camps in Scotland and England before ending up spending a year and a half in Douglas Camp, Isle of Man.

By the end of the 1980s, membership had fallen to just over 6, 000, 000 — little more than half the level of a decade earlier — and it also counted against the Labour Party's hopes of regaining power, as its relationship with the trade unions had traditionally been seen as a strength but after the Winter of Discontent it was seen as a liability.

By contrast, the median income is the level at which half the population is below and half is above.

By 1988, modern varieties were planted on half of the country's rice fields, including 98 % of the irrigated areas.

By 1950 there would be 50, 000 motels serving half of the 22 million US vacationers ; by 1951 motels would surpass hotels in consumer demand.

By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium and the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust, making up almost half of the crust's mass.