by the time

idiom

: at the time : when

I had lived in 12 different cities by the time I turned 18.

By the time she showed up, I was finished eating.

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However, by the time authorities arrived, the actor had already left the scene. —

Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024 Police responded to the restaurant and took a report for assault, but the Oscar winner had reportedly already left by the time cops arrived. —

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024 For starters, no one from DRI had been able to assemble a loan that could use the cut emeralds as collateral by the time Conetto and Thomas arrived in Brazil in September 2001. —

Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024 The same goes, perhaps, for the structures of a big family drama, which Headland makes seem awfully restrictive and unsettling by the time her dénouement arrives. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for by the time