Sentence examples for level of peacetime from inspiring English sources

The FT splashes on the issue, saying that the chancellor will be forced to issue more than £200bn worth of government bonds this financial year, with suggestions that this record level of peacetime borrowing will overshadow his attempts to present a budget for jobs and housing growth.

Labour said the government's "reheated announcements" about infrastructure masked a failure to deliver and the lowest level of peacetime housebuilding since the 1920s.

Risks plainly remain with the highest ever levels of peacetime public borrowing.

Indeed, not since the 1920s has there been such a sustained low level of housebuilding in peacetime.

The UK has the lowest level of housebuilding in peacetime since the 1920s, while home ownership is at its lowest level for 30 years.

The turnout was 59.2percentt, more than 12 percentage points below 1997, which had been the lowest peacetime level of participation in a British election.

Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds said Mr Cameron had presided over the lowest level of house building in peacetime since the 1920s.

No other sector of the UK economy had ever received such levels of support in peacetime.

Reynolds said the government bore responsibility for the crisis because it had presided over the lowest levels of housebuilding in peacetime since the 1920s while the number of homes built for social rent was at the lowest level in over two decades.

But they failed to listen and as a result Cameron and Osborne have overseen the lowest level of housing completions compared with any other peacetime government since the 1920s.

The fat lounge chairs of peacetime were long ago taken adrift, of course.