Example sentences of "[vb base] less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 2 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 3 | What could you stop doing , or devote less time to , or ask someone else to do ? |
| 4 | Results show that these patients recover at a much faster rate , that they are more optimistic , less ‘ self-pitying ’ and demand less time and attention from nursing staff than those who did not have the opportunity for anticipatory mourning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Additionally it might be argued that with the almost instantaneous transmission of information we have these days , the impact of hearing about individuals or groups or communities of people dying is that much greater because we have less time to prepare for bad news . |
| 7 | As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 9 | In trying to struggle on independently they have less time to concentrate on schoolwork . |
| 10 | Consequently some CMHC teams tend to focus on more articulate , well-organized , socially competent people in a transient state of distress and have less time for the more seriously disturbed and those with long-term disorders who are less readily engaged in treatment . |
| 11 | The actively seeking work condition also discriminates against women who , because they are usually responsible for child care and domestic work , have less time to devote to formal jobsearch . |
| 12 | Let's concentrate on the important , serious issues and spend less time worrying about such matters as the quality of the beer . |
| 13 | His arrival suggests that Mr Bush will appear more often on television , spend less time at his Maine seaside retreat , and less time playing with his dogs . |
| 14 | Older people spend less time out of the house , on the street where the bulk of criminal activity occurs . |
| 15 | Let's hope the pessimism of the last edition is firmly left behind — perhaps with Edward Pearce — and that thinkers like Stuart Hall spend less time applauding the Tories and much more time helping to rid us of what he calls this ‘ nightmare ’ . |
| 16 | Some American analyses have indicated that their average life span may be as much as 10 years longer than that of meat eaters and they spend less time in hospital . |
| 17 | Current experimental work with mothers and infants sleeping together in sleep laboratories is tracing the interaction of their patterns of breathing , and has found that in such conditions infants spend less time in deep stages of sleep . |
| 18 | High achievers report less physical illness and spend less time discussing their ailments . |
| 19 | So you spend less time travelling and more time enjoying . |
| 20 | You spend less time searching for a place to work and more time actually working . |
| 21 | So they spend less time searching for you and more time in your company . |
| 22 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 23 | Now with the motorcycles they spend less time travelling and they can spend more time in the villages doing their educational and health work . |