Example sentences of "[adv] less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , a tender offer gives the board of the target much less time to organise its defences and , given the lack of any argument and persuasion on the part of the buyer in the tender advertisement , no detailed guide as to what it is defending against ( defensive statements may simply display the target board 's paranoia ) . |
| 2 | The open sea route was probably less time consuming providing the weather was kind . |
| 3 | " Non-dreamers " tend however to spend slightly less time in REM sleep , than " dreamers " , overall . |
| 4 | It took only slightly less time for her to remember there were no pillows in the sleeping-bag . |
| 5 | er The first day we reckon we 'll have to cycle about er eleven hours , and the second day , slightly less time — ten hours probably , so it 's about twenty one hours cycling . |
| 6 | Cooking will take a little less time than with Method 1 . ’ |
| 7 | If follow-up therapy is to ensue , those consultations are likely to take a little less time — anything from thirty to fifty minutes . |
| 8 | I have a little less time for ‘ Mr ’ Gosse since my encounter with Ed Winterton . |
| 9 | He has just two O-Levels ; one of them a B grade in Art — it would have been an A , he says , if he 'd spent a little less time throwing paper at his classmates . |
| 10 | Random insertions to balanced tree files that use two index entries per track took rather less time as the overflow percentage in the file built up . |
| 11 | Several layers of old paint on an exterior door were removed in substantially less time than with a set-speed budget rival . |
| 12 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 13 | ‘ You have far less time than in the middle to adjust your leap . |
| 14 | It takes far less time than full-scale autobiography , for we are looking for a profile of the significant events that have made you the distinctive person that you are ( warts and all , as they say ) . |
| 15 | This means that there is now less time to influence people 's life styles , to give information about smoking , diet and exercise . |
| 16 | Inevitably less time could be spent by the researchers in doing this on behalf of the control samples ; though by the time of the second and third assessments , the circumstances of , and services received by both action and control sample members were well known both to researchers and development officers . |
| 17 | We have spent a great deal of time recognising and analysing the political problems we face and comparatively less time looking at ways to get rid of them . |
| 18 | Those belonging to language groups such as Kaonde , Luvale , Lunda and Lozi , which were recognised but received proportionately less time , also protested , saying that all the recognised languages should in fairness receive equal time . |
| 19 | We shall have even less time than before to enrich the curriculum with a range of imaginative exploratory activity . |
| 20 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |
| 21 | It is a paradox of modern-day business that , with time-saving devices such as desk-top computers , satellite telecommunications , electronic mail and supersonic aircraft , many managers find even less time to devote to essential profit-making activities — such as thinking and listening to people . |
| 22 | She had little time to care for herself , and even less time for planning and preparing meals with proper thought and care . |
| 23 | Because the mistakes have to be rectified and it puts us under even more pressure because you 've got even less time . |
| 24 | This Government has no time at all for the poor and even less time for people who become poor as a result of their savage policies , the policies which cause high interest rates , rising unemployment and all because of it 's obsession with inflation . |
| 25 | Campbell will be spending even less time with Scotland 's international players . |
| 26 | Alternatively , visual estimation using a comparator can be used , a procedure which is considerably less time consuming and much easier , although such estimates may lack accuracy . |
| 27 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |
| 28 | The ‘ discovery ’ of the role of the father in child development , in particular his ability to achieve significant interaction with the child despite the apparent handicap of significantly less time to do so ( see , for example , Lamb , 1981 ) , has led to a revision of the basic tenets of parenting . |