Example sentences of "[subord] at any [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rudder will certainly be overbalanced and it will require far more force to apply the full opposite rudder than at any other time in flight . |
| 2 | It was paradoxical because although the subject was very deeply asleep , being completely relaxed and more difficult to wake than at any other time during the night , the EEG pattern was that of alert wakefulness . |
| 3 | There remain doubts about Mason 's stamina but encouraged by greater attention since Bruno 's career was put on hold , he is fitter than at any other time in his career and is undoubtably the heavier puncher . |
| 4 | Apart from any other considerations , it was , in fact , during Margaret Thatcher 's period as Education Secretary ( 1970-74 ) that more schools became comprehensive than at any other time either before or since . |
| 5 | The performance-per-pound ratio was probably higher in the '60s than at any other time |
| 6 | On the evenings when the three of them went abroad together , the worst of the heat over , Wilson felt more content than at any other time , more part of a family . |
| 7 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 8 | The scope for bringing influence to bear and exerting power , in the best sense of the word , is probably greater at midlife than at any other time . |
| 9 | An interesting fact is that more people commit suicide at Christmas than at any other time . |
| 10 | But even those who are reasonably secure financially often experience more anxiety over money matters in old age than at any other time in their life . |
| 11 | But his 1775 candidate is well known — indeed she was better known and more celebrated after death than at any other time in her existence . |
| 12 | Were they more exacting in the eighteenth century than at any other time ? |
| 13 | I would say it is five times more difficult than at any other time of the year . ’ |
| 14 | PRINCE Philip will share the Queen 's anger that the Royal Family 's laundry is being washed more publicly than at any other time in half a century . |
| 15 | On the whole , in spite of governmental interest in some special areas and in some kinds of investment , and in spite of tariffs , economic life was more free from interference and more completely self-regulating than at any other time , before or since . |
| 16 | Peter Laslett has written that ‘ Bastard babies must have been commoner between 1810 and 1850 than at any other time in our past for which details are known before our own permissive generation . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
| 18 | Many women feel fitter and healthier during the time in which a baby is carried than at any other time and a number of tendencies towards minor illness vanish during the period . |
| 19 | Martin ( 1986 ) calculated that , ‘ Regional percentage-point unemployment differentials are now wider than at any other time since the inter-war period ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 20 | The number of people without work rose more rapidly , and to a higher level in the two years following 1979 than at any other time during the post-war period . |
| 21 | Thus Adorno 's major contribution dates from a period described in the previous chapter as one of relative situational stability and consensus , when , more than at any other time , the machinery of ‘ mass culture ’ worked to considerable effect . |
| 22 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 23 | Remember , more companies go bust at the beginning of a recovery than at any other time . ’ |
| 24 | Although the incidence of psychotic illness in women is significantly greater after delivery than at any other time , it is still relatively rare ( about one or two cases per thousand ) . |
| 25 | Women in lonely places are there more in the dark than at any other time of the year . |
| 26 | All this , supported by literary evidence , suggests deterioration : bleaker diets ( but with the poor still demanding wheat ) , a decline in non-food purchasing , with standards probably lower than at any other time since the wars at the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | One of the ironies of this was that he himself behaved more like a politician than at any other time in his career . |
| 28 | As it happened both Washington and Beijing were learning some of the skills of crisis management ( as well as " brinkmanship " ) , although a biographer of Eisenhower writes that the United States " came closer to using atomic weapons " in this crisis than at any other time in his presidency . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the number of committed Jacobites in Parliament , although greater than at any other time in Anne 's reign , was still a small minority , and most Tories appear to have been committed to the Hanoverian Succession , though with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
| 30 | Studies of the yearly growth rings of the Huon pines suggest that the temperature in the past 25 years has risen faster than at any other time since AD 900 . |