Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now it 's done in less than a second . |
| 3 | Result — a rock-steady garden seat , built in less than a day , for less than £40 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Herald of Free Enterprise overturned in less than a minute . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’ |
| 11 | The ex-Republican is Mr Lowell Weicker , a blunt critic of the conservative wing of the party , who was unseated in 1988 after a number of prominent right-wing politicians supported his Democratic opponent . |
| 12 | The Supreme Constitutional Court judged on May 19 that the People 's Assembly had been unconstitutionally elected in 1987 because a 1986 amendment to the 1972 electoral law had unfairly discriminated against independent candidates . |
| 13 | This changed in 1980 after a major died in one of two shooting attacks against soldiers . |
| 14 | After a decline in interest in the mid-1970s the series was suspended in 1975 while a new formula was developed . |