Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj -est] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 2 | out of trouble and , when that did n't work , how to cripple an opponent in the shortest possible time . |
| 3 | The grand plan was not only to achieve this stage of evolution in the shortest possible time , but also to eliminate Marxism , the opposing principle or force relative to this philosophy . |
| 4 | A collection letter has only one purpose — to collect your money in the shortest possible time . |
| 5 | Polish officers , therefore , have felt an instinctive affinity for Warsaw Pact ‘ coalition warfare ’ doctrine , with its emphasis on pre-emption , surprise and defeating the enemy on his own territory in the shortest possible time . |
| 6 | Hatton had done the journey in the shortest possible time , leaving no possible spare moment for undercover activities . |
| 7 | For example , the surveyor may consider cost the overriding criterion , whereas the client 's objective may be to complete the project in the shortest possible time . |
| 8 | Test procedures are designed to provide the desired information in the shortest possible time . |
| 9 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 10 | If a closed-loop stepping motor system is to position a load in the shortest possible time it must accelerate rapidly to a high speed , but the choice of switching angle is subject to a conflict between the demands of fast acceleration and high speed operation . |
| 11 | assists the person reach their maximum effectiveness in the shortest possible time . |