than usual

They were all times when the colour, contrast and volume controls of life seemed to have been turned up several notches higher than usual.

Some arty party events tonight have been canceled, but otherwise, D. F. life as normal, if just a bit more surreal than usual.

Jack's grade in the exam was much higher than usual and he might have cheated, but the teacher gave him the benefit of the doubts.

A few days later, our resident architect Keith Purcell came into the office more excited than usual.

The fact that we have to book seats in advance and dress a little better than usual makes going to a party an occasion.

If you're noticing more shedding than usual, examine your lifestyle to see what might have changed or consult your dermatologist for tests.

Astronomers said the moon would appear brighter and larger than usual, but the sky in the UK was almost completely covered by cloud.

John's grade was much higher than usual and he might have cheated, but his professor gave him the benefit of the doubt.

Since the financial crisis over a year and a half ago, many more people than usual have started paying attention to the economy.

On her way back home yesterday afternoon , she was driving faster than usual because she was worried about her little son .

IF I go to bed later than usual, I usually have a midnight snack which consists of just a bowl of congee and a salted duck egg.

Roy: Five days a week. From eight to eighteen. If there are too many documents than usual to deal with, you have to work overtime.

This year, because our gathering was earlier than usual, I'm trying to sum up the event reasonably soon after it ended.

The ocean may be a little colder than usual, but I think you might still be able to hop in.

Just a little advanced planning now will mean you get a lot more accomplished than usual. Prepare to leave everyone wowed.

as her mother bugged her much more than before , she argued with her mother a lot more than usual , too.

There have been a few shock results this season that hopefully might mean the title is taken with fewer points than usual.

He went to bed later than usual , but he did not go without his cup of hot chocolate. Mr. White was not a seaman for nothing .

She sat transfixed, drank a little more than usual, and said that this was one of the most pleasant nights of her life.

The next day, I lingered a few minutes longer than usual at school and Willy went on without me.

While we were arguing, he showed his feelings more openly than usual, and a very strange idea came into my mind.

But a report in the Wall Street Journal says the session promises to be even less of a free-flowing exchange of ideas than usual.

As the great day approached, there was more singing in the slave section than usual. It was lively and lasted later into the night.

As her mother bugged Sandy much more than before, she argued with her mother a lot more than usual, too.

Urgent need to replenish nutrients inside the body and discharge waste, so the heart rate tends to increase 2 to 3 times more than usual.

Since it was a Sunday we were all dressed casually. We also allowed ourselves to be less punctual than usual.

Although she could have lain in bed most of the morning as she mostly did, she got out of it quicker today than usual.

We have to admit that this seasons Barneys Exclusives are a little less exciting than usual.

The foremost reason among them was the fact that she had fewer invitations than usual for the autumn.

She seemed intent on an even fuller schedule of activities than usual, as if she were checking off a list.

Putting yourself in a more optimistic mindset (or even a more mindful mindset) can open you up to more possibilities than usual.

Electricity throughout east Africa is patchier than usual, just when governments are trying to pep their economies up.

After lunch there was a little more clearing up to do than usual.

There were bright pink patches on her cheeks and her eyes were brighter than usual.

You feel mentally more alert than usual and eager to see and talk to people, even if it is just small talk.

The irony is that I don't feel like I'm really doing much, but I'm getting a lot more done than usual. I'm not trying to force anything.

At Tokyo Station, the city's main departure point for long-distance bullet trains, was no more crowded than usual on Thursday afternoon.

Have your partner enter you at a higher angle than usual (the pillows will help), planting his hands on the floor beside your head.

In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt changed Thanksgiving to a week earlier than usual so the Christmas shopping season would last longer.

I am going to get up a little earlier than usual, to do some exercise or to watch the morning news.

Your last two letters, methinks, have more nerve and will in them than usual, as if you had erected yourself more.

Markets are likely to focus more than usual on monthly non-farm payrolls data, due on Friday, to see if the trend is confirmed.

For the next year or two, the country's impatience with brainless partisan mud-slinging will be far more pronounced than usual.

Then during opposition they get more sunlight than usual as the entire Northern Hemisphere is pointed more toward the Sun than usual.

n I told my son he was not allowed to eat ice-cream, as he was having a cold but he ate even more than usual.

But he did seem jollier than usual, and was clearly in a good mood when he met with Medvedev that afternoon.

Both of these models need more adjustments than usual out of the box to look their best.

The budget in a nutshell : with an election imminent, it was even more of a political event than usual.

The scientists were able to replicate the gene variation in a strain of mice and found that the mice needed less sleep than usual, too.

I remember one particular time, during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, when he had been away for longer than usual.

Once Mars moves into Leo and your third house, you might travel short distances quite a bit - much more than usual.

Oh. You are getting it a little shorter than usual.

"Expect your protein to be a bit more moist and tender, with less crunch than usual, " says White.

Sandy mother will love it even more than before nagging her, and her argument with his mother more than usual.

as it went that the blue dragon was more rampant than usual ever afterward.

In Houston, this causes a smaller than usual difference between the temperatures of the land and the sea at night.

Granted, when people and companies are trying to save more and borrow less, monetary loosening is less effective than usual.

The amine scrubbing is cheaper than usual, since the reaction generates carbon dioxide in a more concentrated form.

One afternoon when I was running later than usual, I recognized a familiar face among the patients waiting to see me.

If you take the minipill more than three hours later than usual, avoid sex or use a backup method of birth control for at least two days.

A few days after an appointment at which she had looked even wearier than usual, she collapsed.

Her voice sounded unnaturally high; the brittle laugh she reserved for her boss's jocular, unamusing jokes was even more forced than usual.

It was just more difficult than usual to get into a scoring position.

The crowd was much smaller than usual on Good Riddance Day on account of the snow left over from a major blizzard on Monday.

At the Hamburg airport, though, the kicks were longer and harder than usual which is why I am writing this book: To think. To understand!

Andrew, you've got to be joking. Even more than usual.

When he turned around to face the class, his eyes found David's, and his voice was softer than usual when he spoke.

The organizers said the number of injuries was lower than usual.

I'm having to factor in an extra ten minutes into my daily grooming regime so I can shave my legs, and I'm wearing more make-up than usual.

If the number of submissions is high, it may take longer than usual for your message to appear. Please be patient!

The Sun will be in your domestic fourth house, which typically indicates a time to enjoy nesting more than usual.

Due to an increase in volume levels, our response time might be slightly higher than usual.

You should go to the emergency clinic immediately whenever the bleeding becomes more severe than usual. Come back in a week for a check up.

Hot and dry weather across the southern and southeastern Brazilian states has led to a higher-than-usual level of green soybeans.

Taxi Driver, said, "Our business is better than usual. The weather is so hot. No one wants to cram onto a bus. "

More information is emitted in this example than usual, but this information might be helpful in understanding the test activities.

The session seemed to be more hectic than usual, than other sessions this year, particularly with two stops for tyres for you.

For this reason, dirty or not, the first practice day could be busier than usual this weekend.

Then I began to notice that he wasn't in school a lot, and was sick more than usual.

When it's in your sign, it increases your confidence and makes you much more of a fighter for your rights than usual.

Her bedroom faced his, so she kept her window open wider than usual to listen for the moment he walked into his room.

"People should keep a closer eye than usual on their bank and credit card accounts, " he said.

eg. We work harder than usual finish it in a week .

FOR a decade or so, students of productivity growth have had even more to explain than usual.

First outing wear shoes too ", " should be at least they wear shoes larger than usual.

Since things sometimes get a little more complicated than usual, remember to consult a lawyer for further information before doing anything.

You seem to spending more than usual in November, as Mars will be forcing up your expenses.

Now, rumors and speculation are swirling more than usual, as the industry's cash hoard puts it in a position to make bold bets.

I am excited to send you the New Year's message earlier than usual, as it is ready to "flow" on to you.

The automobile company decided to bring its new models out a month earlier than usual.

A typical performance is wake up early, at least an hour early awakening more than usual.

As they jogged into the turn that would take them past the corner, he became even more apprehensive than usual.

Breakfast was an hour later than usual, and after breakfast there was a ceremony which was observed every week without fail.

Finally, it finally from a disc shoots grew into a tree verdant grass, color also than usual grass green so lovely.

He looks well scrubbed and less bloated than usual, and made no reference to the events of two nights before.

So candidates may have to be a little more patient than usual.

Konjac fiber has multiple benefits. Konjac is much more viscous than usual fibers, retaining up to 17 times its weight in water.

A local bar regular had been drinking all night. This particular night the regular drank a little more than usual.

A slash-resistant shirt developed by a Japanese company has sold much better than usual after several stabbings in the country lately.

Oh, that can't possibly work. You'll have a stomachache if you eat too much ice cream. But you can eat just a little more than usual.

In the case of Captain Ernie Blanchard, the U. S. Coast Guard's top spokesman, that was even truer than usual.

However, a few people in the early stages of high blood pressure may have dull headaches, dizzy spells, or more nosebleeds than usual.

Consequently, the surface of the Atlantic has also been much warmer than usual.

Go to bed a little earlier than usual. The sooner a bad day ends, the sooner a new day can begin.

Goalkeeping coach John Achterberg got a few more ticket requests than usual for our trip to Holland this week.

Alfonso had picked up a tortoise to offer as a gift, so we were perhaps welcomed more warmly than usual.

Higher-than-usual unemployment and erratic wage growth make it hard to find that kind of money.

The adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before settling down to the day's work.

Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual.

Zen master love orchids, preaching in the spread of more than usual, the heart of time costs a lot of growing orchids.

With no way off the freeway, my trip took three times longer than usual. I lost control of my bladder mid-way.

They invented an excuse for having to leave earlier than usual.

Please stop all food except milk. Try to give him a little less milk than usual.

Accordingly, to protect themselves against the worst possibilities, employers shed workers much more sharply than usual in recessions.

Poldek's normal shopkeeper, a Polish woman, notices immediately that he is buying more than usual and that he has the money to pay for it.

Tokyo Metro, one of two subway line operators, was running trains with longer gaps than usual.

On Wednesday he appeared to give up more well - struck fly balls and liners than usual.

Insomniacs or the mentally ill bother their neighbors and thus seem to be more of a "lunatic" than usual because they are awake.

The difference in quality is no more than usual and indeed unavoidable in this line of goods.

She was feeling a little better than usual.

The clouds, higher than usual, swept across the sky before the tearing winds.

Life is going on as normal in Beirut, although a bit quieter than usual.

Even as I was ridiculing the nonsense and hypocrisy of western management I started to think about it rather more fondly than usual.

The results showed that Liz had a significantly higher number of internal attributions than usual.

The next news bulletin , shorter than usual , made no mention of the demonstration .

Anya walking in her head a little higher than usual.

As a keen observer noted, the Sun appeared larger at sunset than usual.

Faced with the severe infectious disease, countries in the world cooperated with one another a lot more than usual.

Tokyo Metro, one of two subway lines, was operating trains with longer gaps than usual.

The hour has changed this weekend which means that it may be darker than usual when you return home at your normal time.

simulation shows the method is better than usual methods in converging speed , non - linear and precision.

They will look on your CV with even greater suspicion than usual and worry that your experience is out of date.

Try going for four or five days on two hours of sleep and then try to tell me you haven't felt sleepy and ready for bed earlier than usual.

If Mr Obama comes across as less eloquent than usual, that's because of the translation, no doubt. Sorry.

To make it possible for (a student) to finish an academic course faster than usual.

As I came off the fast a couple days ago, I noticed I was eating smaller meals and feeling a bit more energetic than usual.

She commented that it was a better play than usual, and I agreed.

It seemed to lawyer Martin that the women were unusually demure and the men more swashbuckling than usual.

Her head twitched violently, more quickly than usual, and her hand gave that queer spasmodic gesture .

In those with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), blood glucose levels are higher than usual, but not high enough to cause diabetes.

Latter adds that at no stage in the crisis was there the slightest indication that we were collectively withdrawing more cash than usual.

REITs are usually less volatile than the rest of the stock market, although lately they've been riskier than usual.

With his awareness increased, he stayed in his seat more than usual, completed more assignments and rarely got in trouble.

Among the big-money players, hedge funds are moving even faster than usual to quit their positions.

Today, on this extraordinarily important day for me, I want to say some more words of a more personal nature than usual for me.

The two men gave their father a stronger dose than usual of his sleeping pills and buried him while he was unconscious, G1 reported.

Although sleep is always fitful on trains, I dozed off more quickly than usual.

Fueling the monsoons' intensity are warmer-than-usual temperatures in and above the Indian Ocean.

Rising house prices have emboldened consumers to save much less than usual.

This tooth is in very bad condition. It needs a careful operation, which may last a little longer than usual.

And given the severity of the latest downturn, it is no surprise the downward adjustment is greater than usual.

However, official at the United States National Weather Service say EI Nino is weaker than usual this year.

AP reporter Miao Shu, Chavez does not walk a bit, his face pale than usual.

You are going to be walking much more than usual, so take care of your feet.

There have been times when I was more active or did many more things than usual.

He looked even more irritated than usual, especially when he saw Cal.

The very dew seemed to hang upon the trees later into the day than usual, as on the sides of mountains.

Snow blankets a ski resort in Arosa, Switzerland. Early snow has allowed resorts to open a month earlier than usual.

When cold weather came to China earlier than usual this year, gas shortages were reported in several parts of the country.

In those days many of the monks used to fall ill and so the other monks had to go on greater alms round than usual.

That made the annual transatlantic hedge-fund give-off between ARK and the organisation that inspired it even less of a contest than usual.

This month may also bring more than usual interaction with your relatives.

That morning he came earlier than usual, for it was not an ordinary day.

He then walked home, holding his briefcase a little more tightly than usual, and put his money in a drawer.

A war or other calamity makes a certain rare spell component even more difficult to obtain than usual.

All the schools in Rikuzentakata are slated to open on April 20, about two weeks later than usual, but that plan has challenges.

Sometimes the laundry piles up, a sick child demands more of our attention than usual, and we temporarily get behind with our schedule.

I've never been sick, just more tired than usual.

High, tall, lofty, towering, elevated These adjectives mean extending to a greater than usual height.

Weekly initial jobless claims data will get more attention than usual after Thursday's nonfarm payrolls fell much more than expected.

You're always pale. Maybe more than usual, though. It looks like you've got some kind of rash on your neck.

Sinking -stomach because I walk out of the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more stuttering and bumbling than usual.

Being dressed in such clothes means that you will feel much more better than usual.

Chinese officials have been warning for weeks that shortages would be more severe than usual this year.

The difference in quality is no more than usual in this line of goods.

Deutsche Bank agreed to many of these so-called novation requests, but charged more than usual to do so.

I was running late for a meeting and was walking more briskly than usual to catch the subway.

In the United States, cases of suspected influenza are at higher numbers than usual this early in the flu season.

UPS Manager Dana Kline says e-commerce means her company is even busier than usual this time of year.

Your homework is better than usual. You have only a few mistakes.

Such treatment of the media is common during China visits of foreign heads of government, but Thursday's incident was rougher than usual.

When the fingers slipped up, they paused a split second longer than usual before typing the next letter.

The vast bulk of SMEs need working capital, mostly debt funding. A larger proportion than usual tend to exit if finance is not available.

Exceptional conditions occurring in nuclear power plants may be much more dangerous than usual.

In short, Pakistan is in an even more serious political mess than usual.

I've had the chance, even more than usual, to get idea-flooded in the last two weeks.

When you leave your house, take less with you than usual.

A month to ask Dan also more than usual.

Perhaps the warm weather had caused them to come out of hibernation earlier than usual.

Mercury nearing the midheaven of your chart gives you stronger opinions than usual.

One day when she was feeling more sad than usual two doves flew down to her window.

The morning he came earlier than usual, for it was not an ordinary day.

The Yamanote commuter rail line is running, but is far quieter than usual as many workers have followed instructions to stay home.

Tonight , however, she was even in a blithe mood than usual .

Canada's comps were positive, but lower than usual, in part because of tax issues and the weather, he said.

Financial scale and flexibility will also give companies a greater edge than usual, whether in greenfield investments or in acquisitions.

However, it becomes highly concentrated in small areas, reaching up to 3, 000 times stronger than usual.

This time the costume juxtapositions and colour codes were even more finely honed than usual.

On this morning, George Wallace had to get up two hours earlier than usual to go through his painful preparations.

If it's taking longer than usual, I'll post a status update on what's going on.

Two days later the man returned to the pub, looking more depressed than usual, he sits down and orders 6 double vodkas .

He went home, lay down, and fell asleep earlier than usual. An hour later he woke up with stomach pains.

You just press on the screen for a longer-than-usual time, and a list of items you can add appears.

Happening awake earlier than usual, he got a march on the doctor and walked out.

The U. S. jobless rate is 9. 4 percent, and is expected to remain higher than usual for some time.

After a day's hard work, she went to bed earlier than usual.

During the week he saw less of her than usual.

the Chinese state-owned oil company known as Sinopec, is offering is much higher than usual for the sector, analysts say.

In addition, pregnant women during pregnancy are more sensitive nerves than usual, fatigue, drowsiness, emotional instability.

A very small proportion of pupils have free school meals. Fewer pupils than usual have learning difficulties.

I left for the office earlier than usual this morning in case of traffic jam.

Molly: Better than usual. Thanks for asking. How about yourself?

But China is generating such enormous quantities of pollution that the effects are felt farther downwind than usual.

One her way back home yesterday afternoon, she was driving faster than usual.

Jupiter is also brighter than usual by about 4 percent because one of its brown cloud belts is hidden.

The genes they occurred in tended to be transcribed more than usual, not less.

We can wake up a little earlier than usual and then get used to it.

The awn arises higher on the lemma back than usual and is outwardly curved rather than geniculate.

If you've recently started a new exercise regimen, you may be noticing that your stomach is growling more often than usual.

This finding supports the the ory that placebo s reduce pain by encouraging the brain to produce more natural opiates than usual.

Heathrow is building bigger lounges and extending baggage carousels to ensure passengers are not delayed any longer than usual.

I have to leave earlier than usual tomorrow.

But some of them were also slower than usual that day, a sign that they, too, must keep investing in new systems.

They weren't closing themselves off with the robot; they were actually more sociable than usual.

Santa had been too busy that year, delivering even more presents than usual.

Experts also found that corn plants near the hotspots were growing much slower than usual.

In the act of walking or taking a swim, the energy begins to move in one's field a little more rapidly than usual.

The depressed prices at the time also prompted some boards to grant larger numbers of options or shares than usual.

I am eating more than usual. But my sleep is poor. It is hard for me to fall asleep. Soon after I am asleep any little noise wakes me up.

The difference in quality no more than usual and indeed unavoidable in this line of goods.

While China experiences power cuts each summer, some provinces have started rationing earlier than usual this year.

And this Rambo, you might say he's a little grumpier than usual. -Really? -Yeah, it's jungle grumpiness.

Yes, you're involved more than usual with others, but things look friendly, co-operative, and mutually beneficial.

The news bulletin, although longer than usual, made no mention of the accident.

Scout with the Sandman has considerably less health than usual. Use this to your advantage.

But because she has a lower-than-usual number of eggs, her physician says her chances are actually less than 33 percent.

We know that when her breasts are fuller than usual they can be very inviting, but she may not even want them touched.

Mao: Before I started, I wasn't nervous but quite calm. But. . . my heart was pounding much more than usual.

The frog thin skin, can be sensitive to humidity changes and therefore is more intense than usual, says humidity is big, it will rain.

RB: I drink a bit more than usual, and mostly the drinks that my physio prepares for me.

Sam had a cut across one cheek, which made his unpleasant face more lowering than usual.

NEW YORK - Do you spend time with a lot of friends? That might mean a particular part of your brain is larger than usual.

In Vladivostok, Russia, registry offices reported more couples than usual getting married.

Refiners and big fuel consumers are less concerned than usual about summer supplies, as they have watched U.

of printers' type; narrower than usual for a particular height.

He went to bed earlier than usual because he was tired.

He seemed more eager than usual, with that eagerness of which Pierre knew so well the inner cause.

Rodriguez acknowledged that the evening's pre-ceremony chatter - made up of over 80 mother tongues - was even more excited than usual.

When that happens, the walls of the airways thicken and produce more mucus than usual, which clogs them up.

With the help of the diamonds, the drug stayed in the bloodstream 10 times longer than usual, making it much more effective.