Example sentences of "in less time than " in BNC.
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| 1 | At sunset the slabbish , orange peaks had appeared like ghosts out of the clouds and then , in less time than it took to wind on a camera , swirled away again . |
| 2 | P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter . |
| 3 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 4 | They can work at speed , and make several passes in less time than it would take to plough the same area with mould-board equipment . |
| 5 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 6 | The airport is 20 minutes from the middle of town and you are in your hotel in less time than it takes to get your luggage at Heathrow . |
| 7 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 8 | In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes . |
| 9 | It is usually possible to read subtitles in less time than it takes the characters to complete the exchange . |
| 10 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 11 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 12 | It is possible , therefore , to integrate modules in such a way that Outcomes may be overtaken in less time than the total notional time for the programme . |
| 13 | In less time than it takes to master the rules of Kabaddi , a steaming sandwich and a matching beer were pushed before me . |
| 14 | The pilots drew cards for their turn and , in less time than you would believe , crews were made up and never a complaint thereafter . |
| 15 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 16 | The pair eventually finished in less time than many bipeds , got their faces on television and their backs in The Times |