Example sentences of "[prep] less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said . |
| 2 | A continuous moulding machine for making wheel hubs will yield a more consistent product with less time spent idle when cleaned with the frozen pellets . |
| 3 | At an even more informal level , people with less time , or no inclination to serve on even a Working Group could help with recruitment , man stalls at shows , make refreshments at meetings , distribute posters etc . |
| 4 | For those with less time to shop or cook , Lesley Waters of BBC1 's Bazaar creates some really useful 15 minute feast . |
| 5 | Privatization for our members has meant more work for less pay with less people and with less time to complete the work . |
| 6 | Spending too much time on education may actually endanger one 's career as less time is available for more effective ways of achieving success . |
| 7 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 8 | Part-time work means using a minder for less time |
| 9 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 10 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 11 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 12 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 13 | There are other benefits too , but probably more appreciated by busy kitchen staff , for instance , the oven is occupied for less time on each item and therefore free for other foods . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter . |
| 16 | Francis apologised to Jane : ‘ French is faster , you can say more in less time . |
| 17 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 18 | Two-thirds claimed that training had allowed them to carry out the farm work in less time and with a reduction in mental and physical effort . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | more time spent on devolution resulted in less time spent ‘ running ’ the school — teachers expected to spend their time educating the pupils rather than running a business ; |
| 21 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is usually possible to read subtitles in less time than it takes the characters to complete the exchange . |
| 26 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 27 | And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers . |
| 28 | Other types of tests , however , provide more complete and systematic diagnosis and in less time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |