By The Time Meaning
(idiomatic) When.
Example: I'll be an old man by the time you finish!‎
1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, The Celebrity:
But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.
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