What does by the time mean?

by the time

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.12 in modern English

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"I'll be an old man by the time you finish!"
"It was ready by the time he arrived."
"It had been just finished by the time of his arrival."
"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."
"By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising. She'll find the note I left hanging on her door."

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