Example sentences of "[adj] than [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion polls now show that employers are blamed for Britain 's economic problems and union are more popular than at any time in their history . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 4 | Last night you made me feel more alive than at any time since the crash . |
| 5 | … 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 … |
| 6 | The beleaguered ranks of social workers and investigators of the 1980s documented a society more unsettled , more helpless , and to some degree more violent than at any period since the century began . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With a majority of only one of the elected seats in the legislature , the government was more vulnerable than at any time in the past . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 11 | The rural population today is better housed , better educated and generally in receipt of a higher standard of living than at any time in the past . |
| 12 | Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years . |
| 13 | He went over the Tay to Aberfeldy more to keep Flemyng quiet than with any hope of working . |
| 14 | To give away much more of first-time director Bob Balaban 's plot would be a shame : sufficient to say that I was seriously put off meat and more cosily frightened than by any film since the original Halloween . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |