Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.