Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |
| 2 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 3 | Although at this time of year , before the monsoon , the water is at its lowest , it was nevertheless chest-deep in places and fast-flowing — turquoise and white where it swirled around boulders near the edge , dark green in the broad sweep of the central canal . |
| 4 | Healthy , lustrous hair will complement any cut , although at this time of year it may become rather depressed after the exhausting effects of the sun and sea . |
| 5 | The evaluators found no evidence of systematic inservice activities to follow up the project in the school itself , although at this time of industrial action such events were conspicuous by their absence in all the schools studied . |
| 6 | In Joffre 's own words , that night ‘ I wished more than at any time of my life that I had the gift of omnipresence . ’ |
| 7 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 8 | It proved to be too little , too late , however , and Labour emerged from the election with fewer MPs than at any time for 50 years . |
| 9 | ‘ According to the CBI , manufacturers are more optimistic now than at any time for almost five years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | … because the economic situation is now more serious than at any time over the last 25 years , the Government decided that resources must be released for investment and improving the balance of payments … |
| 13 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 14 | The Lord Chancellor 's Department and social services departments were involved in the training of 140,000 social service staff last year , when the social service standard spending assessment increased more than at any time over the past 15 years . |
| 15 | This is particularly true today : even in the recession-hit 1990s , brewers are spending increasing amounts on pub refurbishment — more on pubs , indeed , than at any time since the 1930s . |
| 16 | Britain 's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 18 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 19 | During the rest of the 1990s the number of youngsters entering the workforce each year will be smaller than at any time since the second world war ; but two-fifths will be from minorities , mostly Hispanics and blacks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948 . |
| 22 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 23 | Husayn proceeded in the belief that he could discard the PLO , which was in a weaker condition than at any time since 1967 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The seas around California are today warmer than at any time since 1957 and there are record high tides . |
| 26 | ‘ Young people ca n't fail to realise that house prices are cheaper in real terms than at any time since 1970 and interest rates are ridiculously low . |
| 27 | Indeed , under Labour governments professional economists experienced — and probably enjoyed — more political limelight than at any time since the Second World War . |
| 28 | Firms ' financing needs are greater than at any time since the 1974 oil shock . |
| 29 | Indeed , the Married Man 's Tax Allowance has recently been re-confirmed despite strong criticism of it ( for example , Equal Opportunities Commission , 1982b ) : in the March 1984 budget the allowance went up so that in real terms it is now higher than at any time since the war ( Financial Times , 14 March 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Arguably it 's easier now for a British composer to get an opera on to the stage than at any time since 1945 . |