Example sentences of "[adv] in real [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 2 | government spending to be cut by 5 per cent annually in real terms for five years ; |
| 3 | So in real life this is not the end of the world for the Labour Party . |
| 4 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 5 | So in real terms , their attempt to buy off inflation through borrowing makes them poorer than they would otherwise have been . |
| 6 | So in real terms you were getting nothing . |
| 7 | Yes , that meant we were earning less in real terms after taking inflation into account but at least we still had a job at the end of it . |
| 8 | less in real terms than in 1990-91 . |
| 9 | Some friends of mine are staying in the parish house for a holiday in my absence and in real need a key to the church may be obtained from them — but , please , only in real need ! |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 11 | A basic amount of money must be provided , and the Conservatives have put more money than ever in real terms into education . |
| 12 | That is why the industry was able to cope with its highest work load ever in real terms , and did not suffer the labour shortages experienced in the 1960s . |
| 13 | Brian Watts , managing director of B. E. Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England , pays chefs between £8,000 and £17,000 per year , but the financial benefits of the bank 's employee package ( cheap mortgages and pensions , etc ) , bring this up to considerably more in real terms . |
| 14 | The price of all meats fell more in real terms than all foods — rising in price 15% less than inflation over the past 10 years — and are now 13% cheaper than a decade ago . |
| 15 | The university and polytechnic libraries now spend probably more in real terms on library guides than they ever did . |
| 16 | more in real terms on the health service than when we came to office . |
| 17 | The increased number of pensioners in the top half of the income distribution is the result of pensioners ' average net incomes rising by a third or more in real terms because of the policies of the Government . |
| 18 | Government spending of more than £2.6 billion in 1992-93 on enterprise and vocational education is two and a half times more in real terms than in 1978-79 . |
| 19 | more in real terms than when we came into office . |
| 20 | more in real terms than in 1991-92 . |
| 21 | If the Treasury underestimates the level of inflation , as it has every incentive to do , departments will be forced to cut their spending further in real terms to keep within the limits . |
| 22 | In the decade prior to nationalisation , electricity tariffs had hardly increased at all in money terms , and the average domestic price of electricity had fallen faster than in any other decade in history , both in real terms and relative to the price of its major competitors , gas and coal . |
| 23 | Loans and aid of all kinds to the Third World actually dropped slightly in real terms in 1988 , from $96.9 billion in 1987 to $96 billion adjusted to 1987 prices and exchange rates . |
| 24 | Hence in real terms the book value of ICI 's equity has shrunk from 92 £8bn in 1971 to 92 £3bn in 1991 . |
| 25 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 26 | Mostly in real life you know what people are going to say . ’ |
| 27 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 28 | The laboratory , one of four run by the Science and Engineering Research Council , has come under increasing financial pressure as its £20m annual budget has fallen sharply in real terms . |
| 29 | It has risen sharply in real terms , as the hon. Gentleman knows only too well . |
| 30 | Dreams of being chased , or of flying are also more frequent than one might expect , given that neither of these events happens very frequently in real life . |