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 varying the snap count, a quarterback forces the defensive players to react to the movement of the offensive players, or risk being called for an offsides or encroachment penalty.

By making the graffiti less explicit ( as adapted to social and legal constraints ), these drawings are less likely to be removed but do not lose their threatening and offensive character.

By September 1941, Philby was working for Section V of MI6, responsible for offensive counter-intelligence.

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

By 23 January 1939 the British government received information to the effect that Germany intended to invade the Netherlands in February 1939 with the aim of using Dutch air-fields to launch strategic bombing offensive intended to achieve a " knock-out " blow against Britain by razing British cities to the ground.

By 1908, this was described by the New York Times as a " long-established … preference " ( see article ) In modern usage in Scotland, " Scotch " is never used, other than as described in the following paragraph for certain articles ; it has gathered patronising and faintly offensive connotations (" frugal with one's money "), and a non-Scot who uses the word in conversation with Scots as a description of them may find this a good test of their courtesy.

By spring 1972 the Americans and South Vietnamese realized that the enemy was planning a major offensive, but they did not know where or when.

By mounting an offensive with considerable ( but not decisive ) force, the commander hopes to elicit a strong reaction by the enemy that reveals its own strength, deployment, and other tactical data.

By this time, Weyrother had convinced John and Lauer to adopt an offensive posture.

By the time the French assumed the offensive in April 1794, their army numbered 28, 000 regular soldiers, 20, 000 garrison troops, and 9, 000 hastily-trained volunteers.

By the middle of July 1919, Kun decided to stake everything on an offensive against the Romanians.

By mid-November, it was clear that after having sustained 10, 000 combat casualties since the Volturno Line offensive, 5th Army needed to pause, reorganise and re-gather its strength.

By 647, Muawiyah had built a Syrian army strong enough to repel a Byzantine attack and, in subsequent years, to take the offensive against the Byzantines in campaigns that resulted in the capture of Cyprus ( 649 ) and Rhodes ( 654 ) and a devastating defeat of the Byzantine navy off the coast of Lycia ( 655 ).

By early February, at the height of the first phase of the offensive, 61 percent declared themselves hawks, 23 percent doves, and 16 percent held no opinion.

By this stage, there were indications of an impending Soviet offensive which would target Wehrmacht forces around the city, including increased Soviet activity opposite the Sixth Army's flanks, and information gained through the interrogation of Soviet prisoners.

By 4 May, the successful Japanese Burma offensive was winding down, except for mopping up actions.

By plugging these expected runs scored and allowed into the pythagorean formula, one can generate second-order wins, the number of wins a team deserves based on the number of runs they should have scored and allowed given their component offensive and defensive statistics.

By 24 February, the Germans had pulled the Großdeutschland Panzergrenadier Division off the line, leaving the 167th and 320th infantry divisions, a regiment from the Totenkopf division and elements from the Leibstandarte division to defend the Western edge of the bulge created by the Soviet offensive.

By shortened supply lines and most of his soldiers in dry and hot places ( cold weather already started ) for 3 days he refreshed his army and prepared it for offensive.

By March, heavy casualties, desertions, and low recruitment had forced Lon Nol to introduce conscription and, in April, insurgent forces launched an offensive that pushed into the suburbs of the capital.

By the time the Khmer Rouge initiated their dry-season offensive to capture the beleaguered Cambodian capital on 1 January 1975, the Republic was in chaos.

By the time Poles launched their Kiev offensive, the Red Southwestern Front had about 82, 847 soldiers including 28, 568 front-line troops.

By the end of the month all German opposition in the area had ceased and it marked the end of No. 3 Commando's offensive operations.

By the mid-90s he had developed into one of the premier offensive players in the game, hitting 40-plus home runs in three consecutive seasons, 1995, 1996 and 1997, becoming just the tenth player to do so ( and first since Frank Howard 1968-1970 ).