Example sentences of "in [det] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 2 | At the moment , automated workflow is used in less than a quarter of all electronic document management systems ; by 1995 it is projected to have jumped to over three quarters . |
| 3 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 4 | But this Subject had n't lost him by accident : she had brushed him off within minutes in less than a quarter-mile of straight well-lit street . |
| 5 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |