Example sentences of "in [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For since fishermen require only trained aptitudes , and not any exceptional natural qualities , their number could be increased in less than a generation to almost any extent that was necessary to meet the demand ; while the industries connected with building boats , making nets , etc. being now on a larger scale would be organized more thoroughly and economically . |
| 2 | And in less than a year after that the Secretary of State may make it clear that our client group is radically changed and moved |
| 3 | It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 7 | It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor . |
| 10 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |
| 11 | Two thirds of the Swiss population can reach it in less than an hour by road or rail . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
| 14 | He can , of course , also make a payment into court , but the difficulties of calculating it are obvious and he would probably have to pay in more than the value of the claim for immediate damages to tempt the plaintiff . |
| 15 | The Leicester MP led a delegation representing BCCI victims in more than an hour of talks which are seen as a prelude to a meeting between MPs and Chancellor Norman Lamont on March 23 . |