Example sentences of "lower than [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the Labour vote was still six million , its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910 . |
| 8 | Shall we not , before long , see the extinguishing — after 13 years — of the three Conservative Governments who have managed to create the current situation in Wales , where gross domestic product per capita is lower than in any other region ? |