Example sentences of "than [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 | In Joffre 's own words , that night ‘ I wished more than at any time of my life that I had the gift of omnipresence . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ According to the CBI , manufacturers are more optimistic now than at any time for almost five years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | … 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 … |
| 9 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Britain 's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age . |
| 13 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 14 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948 . |
| 18 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 19 | Husayn proceeded in the belief that he could discard the PLO , which was in a weaker condition than at any time since 1967 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The seas around California are today warmer than at any time since 1957 and there are record high tides . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Indeed , under Labour governments professional economists experienced — and probably enjoyed — more political limelight than at any time since the Second World War . |
| 24 | Firms ' financing needs are greater than at any time since the 1974 oil shock . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Arguably it 's easier now for a British composer to get an opera on to the stage than at any time since 1945 . |
| 27 | The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 . |
| 28 | Nineteen days after the Sunday when he was deemed to have no alternative than to resign in ignominy his leadership was more secure than at any time since the 1929 election . |
| 29 | You will remember at that time there was probably a stronger pacifist feeling running through the country than at any time since the War . |
| 30 | Indeed , in the last years of the Empire a smaller proportion of noble land passed from their hands than at any time since Emancipation . |