Example sentences of "than at [adj] time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her surprise , he wrote to her more that winter than at any time before and she was touched to find him attempting more than the sweet but stilted compositions he had managed previously . |
| 2 | When that day arrives , in the not-too-distant future , Beerling says listeners to the radio will find themselves ‘ better-served by their equipment than at any time since the wireless was first invented by Marconi in 1895 ’ . |
| 3 | His obligatory attendance of the 40th birthday party of East Germany has helped to leave that self-advertised ‘ pillar of European stability ’ and ‘ trustiest of friends of the Soviet Union ’ looking more unstable than at any time since the Red Army moved in to suppress the uprising of 17 June 1953 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fieldhouse drives the point home when he argues that ‘ between 1945 and 1951 Britain exploited those dependencies that were politically unable to defend their own interests in more ways and with more serious consequences than at any time since overseas colonies were established ’ . |
| 6 | She had shown him with pride to both her mother and grandmother and had carried him to bed more deeply satisfied than at any time since she had been weaned from Phoebe 's now forgotten breasts . |
| 7 | Yet it makes the right more united , on paper , than at any time since it lost office three years ago . |
| 8 | Given this cast of mind , it was not surprising that during Mrs Thatcher 's occupancy the Great and Good found the doors of 10 Downing Street more closed than at any time since the war . |
| 9 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Defending the prescription rises , Dr Mawhinney said 80pc of prescribed items were now dispensed free , more than at any time since prescription charges were re-introduced in 1968 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's odd ( and I feel a little guilty ) but I have been feeling happier today than at any time since I came here . |
| 18 | Charlotte wept then , more freely than at any time since his death . |
| 19 | But when they began to steal away from their tasks to sit beside her and smoke their pipes , Grainne felt more honoured than at any time since she had occupied Ireland 's Throne . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Is it any wonder that every one of my hon. Friends is now inundated with more complaints about housing matters than at any time since we have been in the House ? |
| 22 | The relations between North and South Korea improved more spectacularly during December than at any time since the Korean War with the signing of a historic non-aggression accord , and the negotiation of an agreement banning nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula . |
| 23 | By the outbreak of the French revolution sensitivities on such matters were still not dead ; but they were a much less obtrusive element in international relations than at any time since quasi-modern diplomacy began to emerge three centuries earlier . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I am more uncertain about the real state of our economy than at any time since I can remember , ’ he told the Foreign Press Association in London . |
| 27 | ‘ I am more uncertain about the real state of our economy than at any time since I can remember , ’ he told the Foreign Press Association in London . |