Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
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Example
Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting.
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Part of speech
preposition
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