Example sentences of "[adj] less time " in BNC.
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1 | There is no reason in the nature of the technology itself why men should not gather fruits , berries , and roots , and consequently no reason why they should spend so much less time in productive activities . |
2 | But getting the chemical into the tank is now done in much less time , says Mr Doig , and the 2,500-litre sprayer can be filled with water and the contents of nine or ten packs of typical wheat herbicide in less than 15 minutes . |
3 | Meeting an obligation to threaten , or to make peace , took much less time than before . |
4 | In Westminster they take much less time . |
5 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
6 | My producers will tel you that I take much less time over my recordings than some wellknown colleagues . |
7 | Essay-writing is an exception , however ; generally physics students , spending about 25 hours a week in lectures , tutorials and labs , have much less time than humanities students to work on their own initiative . |
8 | Their conception of literature differed from his , however , on at least one fundamental point : they were much less interested in the experience of reading than in the objective features of the medium , the literary text itself ; and they therefore spent much less time on evaluation than on description and analysis . |
9 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
10 | All this , of course , happened in much less time than it takes to explain . |