Example sentences of "[adv] than at [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the annual review ( July 1984 ) of the members of the International Energy Agency , ( which was the body established to co-ordinate the response of the industrialised , non-Communist countries to the 1974 oil shock ) it was stated that , ‘ long-term prospects for meeting energy requirements and maintaining energy security are now better than at any time since 1973 . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 . |
| 3 | But even if the old partnership of Christian Democrats , Socialists and Liberals gets a working majority , the serious opposition parties have made their point more effectively than at any time since 1948 . |
| 4 | DISCOUNTING the scowl that greeted the outcome of his declaration at Ilford , Mike Gatting has been in better humour lately than at any time in my experience . |
| 5 | Britain 's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age . |
| 6 | The current downturn in the housing market has now lasted for three years — four in some parts of the south — and house prices have fallen further than at any time in modern UK history . |
| 7 | ‘ According to the CBI , manufacturers are more optimistic now than at any time for almost five years . |
| 8 | It was to no purpose , however , for Franco was no more inclined to negotiate now than at any time in the past year . |
| 9 | The number of new words entering the English language is rising faster now than at any time in history . |
| 10 | The prospects for democracy in Africa are probably better now than at any time in the post-colonial era . |
| 11 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 12 | Fewer trees are being planted in the UK presently than at any time since the war , according to the timber industry body , Timber Growers UK . |
| 13 | This is significant , given that many commentators in 1983 thought that the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties were further apart than at any time over the previous thirty years . |
| 14 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 15 | Over the past ten years recorded crime has risen faster than at any time in our history . |