Example sentences of "[noun sg] in less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter . |
| 3 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A free or reduced rate offer on their part could be one solution that would help complete this huge task in less time . |