Example sentences of "reduce the time " in BNC.

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1 Similarly , with the various aspects of stock work , careful and skilful handling not only reduced the time and effort of the person involved but also the stress to the stock .
2 The Secretary of State is therefore increasing from four to eight the number of full-time inquiry reporters in the Scottish Office Unit , the setting up of which has in itself reduced the time involved in arranging inquiries and submitting reports .
3 These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter .
4 There is a version of the roundhouse kick which reduces the time spent turned away from the opponent .
5 The shape of the legs was formed to make sure that each face that had a rail joint was at right angles to the rail which reduces the time and effort needed for angled joints .
6 Striking them in pots in a greenhouse dramatically reduces the time taken .
7 This type of help via an intelligent terminal or microcomputer is particularly valuable for the relatively unskilled end-users , in that it not only reduces the time taken to enter and transmit a search , but also allows correction of any typing or strategy errors before going online , thus removing some of the stress commonly associated with online searching .
8 Keeping generally busy and active reduces the time available for brooding over problems .
9 Of course , you can navigate without such a wonderful piece of kit , but I find I spend so much time locating an off-road search area , that it severely reduces the time available on site .
10 By ensuring that only the most promising designs are subjected to the rigour of costly physical tests , it reduces the time and cost penalties of employing test facilities such as wind tunnels .
11 ‘ This reduces the time spent on training and saves duplication for people who have already completed as initial full-day Team .
12 I hope too that you find it helpful to caretaking staff in that it reduces the time that they safeguard the front entrance by 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at the end of the day .
13 Not least , it reduces the time in which the specification can be changed .
14 Not least , it reduces the time in which the specification can be changed .
15 They speed up the circulation of material goods through advertising , which reduces the time between production and consumption .
16 Section fourteen reduced the time period for entitlement of guaranteed payments and , perhaps worst of all , sections eleven twelve and thirteen on maternity rights affected the rights of women to return to work .
17 The society , which claims wide support in the Commons and the Lords , will campaign against embryo research and aim to introduce its own amendment to reduce the time limit for abortion to 18 weeks .
18 Further , the Prime Minister brought forward the deadline for nominations to the leadership contest to 15 November in order to force the hand of any challenger and to reduce the time available to mount an effective campaign .
19 And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports .
20 They could be sucked beforehand to reduce the time before explosion , though the imagination sags a bit at conjuring up a frogman sucking aniseed balls underwater alongside explosive charges .
21 Early discussion with the authority 's officers to see exactly what information they require with the application , as well as to ensure that the proposed development is basically acceptable to the authority obviously helps to reduce the time needed .
22 They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem .
23 But , if they were to reduce the time it takes to qualify , I definitely do n't think is should be any less than four years .
24 All Hewlett-Packard and third-party components that make up the OpenWarehouse are evaluated , lab-tested and integrated to reduce the time it takes to implement it and ensure robust , supportable installations , Hewlett-Packard claims .
25 All Hewlett-Packard and third-party components that make up the OpenWarehouse are evaluated , lab-tested and integrated to reduce the time it takes to implement it and ensure robust , supportable installations , Hewlett-Packard claims .
26 Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial .
27 The challenge facing large organizations of all types is to reduce the time among these three stages .
28 Ideally , the file designer will aim to reduce the time taken to reference this index ; however , when it exceeds a certain threshold value described earlier , a master index , which has one entry for each track of the cylinder index , can be created to reduce the total search time as described above .
29 Modern PCs , though , have the power to reduce the time needed to construct quite sophisticated animations — lots of the time-consuming steps can be automated using the computational power built into our machines .
30 There may still be some possibilities , however , perhaps by filling as much of the waking day as possible with exhausting and demanding activity to reduce the time which can be given to introspection .
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