Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 3 | In 1894 , the year of the reconstituted Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , monthly rates for ABs on steam vessels were lower than at any time since 1888 . |
| 4 | As Mead pointed out , the numbers ( estimated at 13,000 ) are lower than at any time since the institute started counting more than 20 years ago , and well below the peak of 15,400 in 1989 . |
| 5 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 6 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 7 | For five species ( Song Thrush , Lesser Whitethroat , Willow Warbler , Blue Tit and Reed Bunting ) , numbers were lower than at any time since the surveys started in 1981 . |
| 8 | Although the Labour vote was still six million , its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910 . |
| 9 | During this drought the amplitude of this effect has been bigger than at any time since reliable pressure records for the region were first taken 50 years ago . |
| 10 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |
| 11 | In 1882 a larger and at that time healthier site was purchased on Wandsworth Common , and the new school opened with 271 boys — most of them boarders , but 80 day-boys . |
| 12 | Especially when indie labels are currently faring better than at any time during their history . |
| 13 | ONE reason Boris Yeltsin did so well in the referendum on April 25th is that the Russian economy is looking better than at any time since reform began . |
| 14 | Although the level of capacity utilization reached at the height of the upswing was lower than in the previous boom ( and so the extent of ‘ overheating ’ , as conventionally measured was less ) , the rate of expansion was faster than at any time since 1958–9 . |
| 15 | By mid-1989 the centre in British politics , split between the renamed ‘ Democrats ’ , the remaining Social Democrats , and ‘ green ’ environmentalists , seemed weaker than at any time since the leadership of the old Liberals by Jo Grimond at the time of ‘ Orpington man ’ in the early 1960s . |
| 16 | Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At 28 , Labour 's parliamentary caucus was smaller than at any time since 1931 , before the first Labour government had ever been elected . |
| 19 | SINCE the Danes said Yes to the treaty of Maastricht on May 18th , Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) has appeared calmer than at any time since they voted No a year earlier . |
| 20 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 21 | A regular survey carried out by IFO , a research institute , shows that business confidence has slipped slightly in recent months , but it still remains far higher than at any time in the 1980s . |
| 22 | And Conquest said that ‘ Grain exports during the early thirties were higher than at any time since the revolution , running around 5 million tons a year in 1930–31 and 1¾ million tons during the famine period of 1932–33 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is now higher than at any time since the early 1960s . |
| 26 | A survey by the drugs company Beecham shows the incidence of flu is between 25 and 71 per cent higher than at this time last year . |
| 27 | The seas around California are today warmer than at any time since 1957 and there are record high tides . |
| 28 | Firms ' financing needs are greater than at any time since the 1974 oil shock . |
| 29 | So in the winter of 1917–18 murmurs of opposition began to grow louder than at any time since Lloyd George became Prime Minister , the Asquithians revived their interest as they scented a chance to bring Lloyd George down . |
| 30 | Whether due to Anglo-American action or not , the Middle East became temporarily quieter than for some time . |