By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

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

By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

) By the time the streetcar pulled away, he had fallen in love with Paula.

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

By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.

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

By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.

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 that time, perhaps something better can be done ''.

By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.

By this time Henri's entire chest-back-lat-shoulder area is pumped-up to almost bursting point, and Claude takes time to do a bit more pectoral-front deltoid shaping work.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

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

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.

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.

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 this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

By this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

By the time pupils reach the sixth grade, their ethical and moral standards are fairly well developed ; ;

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 1898, rustling losses had been driven down to the lowest level ever seen in Wyoming.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

By the age of six young Johnny indicated that he had the call.

By September 1940 the Suite had developed into a collection of six songs, `` four spirituals, a dream, and a lullaby ''.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

By both standards Thomas had the right to be proud.

By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.

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 1834 the art of oratory had reached a very high level in the United States as a literary form.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

By 800 social and cultural security had been achieved, at least on a simple plane ; ;

By this time large numbers of the audience had left the hall.

By 1100 BCE, opium was cultivated on Cyprus, where surgical-quality knives were used to score the poppy pods, and opium was cultivated, traded, and smoked.

By 2000, consumption had fallen to 2, 092 per capita, corresponding to about 30 % of men and 22 % of women smoking more than 100 cigarettes per year, and by 2006 per capita consumption had declined to 1, 691 ; implying that about 21 % of the population smoked 100 cigarettes or more per year.

By the mid-1990s, he was not only addicted to cocaine and crack, but also heroin, which he often smoked along with marijuana.

By the time the show came around I had smoked another three or four times.