Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without this integration the results of existing technical research can not be applied in less than the present high risk of failure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now it 's done in less than a second . |
| 4 | Result — a rock-steady garden seat , built in less than a day , for less than £40 . |
| 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 | Work began the following year , using a shield which , though similar to one patented by Barlow in 1868 , was designed by Greathead ; it was forced forward by powerful screw-jacks as excavation proceeded , and the 1,350 ft. long tunnel was completed in less than a year . |
| 7 | The Herald of Free Enterprise overturned in less than a minute . |
| 8 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Graham Warren , principal resources officer for the NRA 's Southern Region , said that groundwater levels were the lowest observed in more than a century . |
| 11 | Alix could feel the heat at once , embodied in more than the pink and green balloons , the paper chains , the tinsel . |
| 12 | In this sense a stability test is never finished in less than the actual shelf-life of the product . |
| 13 | a package is not referenced in more than the maximum allowed number of packages ( see Limitations below ) |
| 14 | I was left in more than the literal darkness . |