Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Under the Conservatives more homeowners have lost their homes than at any time since the war . |
| 2 | Husayn proceeded in the belief that he could discard the PLO , which was in a weaker condition than at any time since 1967 . |
| 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 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 5 | In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948 . |
| 6 | More foreign gods were admitted into the Greek pantheon than at any time since prehistory . |
| 7 | The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 . |
| 8 | They receive no extra remuneration whatsoever for their duties although at some times of course it can be quite dangerous . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 8.2 To take Lease following disclaimer If at any time during the Term the Tenant ( being an individual ) shall become bankrupt or ( being a company ) shall enter into liquidation and the trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator shall disclaim this Lease the Guarantor shall if the Landlord shall by notice within [ 60 ] days after such disclaimer so require take from the Landlord a Lease of the Premises for the residue of the Contractual Term which would have remained had there been no disclaimer at the Rent then being paid under this Lease and subject to the same covenants and terms as in this Lease ( except that the Guarantor shall not be required to procure that any other person is made a party to the Lease as guarantor ) such new Lease to take effect from the date of such disclaimer and in such case the Guarantor shall pay the costs of such new Lease and execute and deliver to the Landlord a counterpart of it This provision is inserted to avoid the fact that a disclaimer of a lease by a trustee in bankruptcy or a liquidator will give rise to the release of the guarantor from the date of the disclaimer . |
| 15 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 16 | The sudden disturbing plunge into the jungle in the cloying heat of the Saigon River had made her more intensely aware of her body than at any time since the fevered days of adolescence . |
| 17 | Currently , business investment accounts for a higher proportion of GDP than at any time in the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 18 | He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit . |
| 19 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 20 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 21 | The television experiment was given greater significance , however , by the recent radical changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ; at the time when TV Martí began transmitting the Castro regime appeared more beleaguered and vulnerable to outside subversion than at any time since the early 1960s . |
| 22 | In his view , Finland is ’ friendly ’ ; Sweden , acceptably socialist East Europeans have more scope than at any time since 1945 to make of their lives what they will . |
| 23 | Baker immediately praised Assad 's response as positive , saying that it had demonstrated that Syria was now more willing to enter direct peace talks with Israel than at any time in the past . |
| 24 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 25 | Texas Instruments , the American merchant producer , made its first overseas chip production investment in 1957 ; it chose the United Kingdom because at that time the UK represented the most favourable military and computer market outside the United States . |
| 26 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 27 | As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | French retail sales fell by 3.6% in the year to November , while business confidence has fallen more sharply in the past two quarters than at any time in the 1980s . |