Example sentences of "[vb past] less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he spent less time jetting around on EC business and more solving Britain 's problems , perhaps a lot more people would have jobs , too . |
| 2 | In this scenario , the Diet took a subordinate role only until the socialist and communist parties accepted the system of liberal democracy and spent less time arguing for an alternative . |
| 3 | However , this survey also found that women spent less time out of the labour market rearing children than is often believed . |
| 4 | He spent less time there than he meant to : it was a cell , cool and enclosed , whereas from the terrace in front of the sunlit house one could see , sipping wine , the valley of the Rhone away below , lavender fields , olives , vines . |
| 5 | Children generally spent less time working and more time distracted as the size of their work groups increased from one to twenty . |
| 6 | Pupils at S5/S6 spent less time on health education than any other group of pupils . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps if you spent less time lurking behind doors ? ’ |
| 8 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The LGS took less time and effort to prepare than the rice-salt mixture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The " fat " was well-spaced work , with less solid text , and it therefore took less time to set a page . |
| 13 | The production of the draft report actually took less time than anticipated and was available by October 1984 — some seven months after the appraisal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The rescue took less time than you anticipated . |
| 16 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 17 | But the operation lasted less time than thought and generated large savings for Nuclear Electric . |
| 18 | But Lisa had less time for her , and was meeting new people , refining a way of living that even a year ago she would have claimed to despise . |
| 19 | Even Oxbridge men had less time and money to spare . |
| 20 | That year he had less time at Aix than usual . |
| 21 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |