The Yugoslav officials said they were ultimately prepared to shrink their Kosovo force to the "peacetime" level.

It is likewise a distraction from what ought to be the Republicans' top priority: reducing tax rates to something like peacetime levels.

But to support that argument by stating that the bill will add to "record peacetime levels" of government spending?

President Slobodan Milosevic has said Yugoslavia now has about 100,000 army and militarized police forces in Kosovo, up from a peacetime level of some 11,000.

On 5 November, the 24/7 alert was stood down and operations returned to normal peacetime levels.

The rations for cheese, butter, rice, cereals, eggs and lard were less than 20% of peacetime levels.

In peacetime level have Brigades operating units, commands, regiments and units equivalent Air Force and Navy.

In the autumn of 1923, the government started to reduce the size of the National Army to peacetime levels.

Many members of staff joined the armed forces and it was not possible to build and maintain equipment at peacetime levels.

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