Example sentences of "take less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not underestimate the time required to prepare a cocktail party — a four-course dinner often takes less time ! |
| 2 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 3 | This is easy to do but please do not try to hurry up the process up as ‘ slow and steady ’ seems to give the best results and takes less time than trying to hurry . |
| 4 | For example , a sales idea will be easier to implement and show a steeper slope ( e.g. takes less time from origination to commercialization ) than one requiring a new technology involving research and development . |
| 5 | Honeydew melons ripen slowly and will often keep up to a month , but smaller varieties will take less time to ripen . |
| 6 | Although a monologue from the ward sister may take less time , the full potential of the ward report for teaching is not reached . |
| 7 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 8 | ‘ It will simply take less time if you tell us . ’ |
| 9 | I know nothing of such matters ; I thought arranging such a consignment would take less time . |
| 10 | I believe that a port to Unix using the toolkit will take less time and resources than our conversion to support Apple 's system 7 . |
| 11 | If you only have limited time to workout , doing these exercises correctly and combining two or more movements will take less time and show better results . |
| 12 | Because once she has got the disciplines in place , she it should l take less time , but at the moment she is really overburdened . |
| 13 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 14 | The LGS took less time and effort to prepare than the rice-salt mixture . |
| 15 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 16 | The " fat " was well-spaced work , with less solid text , and it therefore took less time to set a page . |
| 17 | The production of the draft report actually took less time than anticipated and was available by October 1984 — some seven months after the appraisal . |
| 18 | In fact he had been advised to take cheap and expeditious transit on one of the small four-crewed colliers that sailed from Tyne to Thames , which journey , depending on wind and tide , took less time . |
| 19 | ‘ The rescue took less time than you anticipated . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's happened in the last 10 years and is accelerating very fast is the fact the women are taking less time off ’ , says Michaels . |
| 21 | When he can walk outside confidently , the patient can plan to increase the distance he walks , or to go on the same route , but taking less time to complete his walk . |
| 22 | The prediction was that when a subject 's attention had been focused on the acted-upon it would be easier ( and so take less time ) to produce a passive , whereas an active would be easier when the preamble concerned the actor . |
| 23 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 24 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |