Example sentences of "in less [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 2 | CAMRA 's membership has grown from under 20,000 to 30,000 in less than three years . |
| 3 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 4 | Comparable conduct by non-police officers would surely have led , in less than four years , either to criminal charges or to punishment for contempt of court . |
| 5 | The failure of the second coup attempt against General Noriega in less than two years has disappointed and enraged some Panamanians who felt the US missed a golden opportunity to use its troops to dispose of the general , indicted by the Americans on drug-smuggling charges last year . |
| 6 | From six members , the company has grown in less than four years to a staff of more than 90 , and a base of more than 200 installed systems . |
| 7 | ‘ In less than 80 days ? ’ said somebody . |
| 8 | Panther claims it will blast the Solo from standstill to 60mph in less than 6.0 seconds and take it on to a top speed in excess of 150mph . |
| 9 | Projects need to be assessed over time ; there are very few whose benefits can be seriously assessed in less than ten years , and a period of fifteen to twenty years would be more meaningful . |
| 10 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 11 | Mr Papandreou , aged 70 , is under increasing pressure to reach a compromise solution with his political opponents as Greek voters have no desire to go to the polls again for a third time in less than six months . |
| 12 | It is possible to ‘ do ’ Marrakech in less than two days . |
| 13 | Urging the country to unite behind her after the trauma of the sixth uprising against her government in less than four years , Ms Aquino said she was determined not to allow ‘ any aggressor to wrest our freedom and democracy away from us . |
| 14 | Sea level went up by 24 metres in less than 1,000 years , a rate of more than 24mm per year . |
| 15 | He is bushy-tailed and defiantly optimistic for the new decade — which in his case starts early when the still battered England cricket team leave for the West Indies in less than three weeks . |
| 16 | There are huge gaps to bridge in the Uruguay round in less than two months , in areas such as services and textiles as well as agriculture . |
| 17 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 18 | The Soviet Union , he said , was the only country capable of destroying America in less than 30 minutes . |
| 19 | But getting the chemical into the tank is now done in much less time , says Mr Doig , and the 2,500-litre sprayer can be filled with water and the contents of nine or ten packs of typical wheat herbicide in less than 15 minutes . |
| 20 | Their ability to produce a full-sized poster in less than four hours gave an unprecedented flexibility to the two big parties in the cut and thrust of the campaign . |
| 21 | ‘ This will be your third home in less than three years . |
| 22 | In less than two minutes a wreck of a woman staggers , rather than walks towards the counter . |
| 23 | Many objectors privately feared that it would be all over in less than six months , and after precious little public involvement . |
| 24 | ‘ We will know something in less than two hours . |
| 25 | ‘ The fact is we 've all done for ourselves and in less than thirteen years . |
| 26 | Elements can be detected in the low ppm levels in less than one minute with simultaneous detection of all elements , AI to U. |
| 27 | The great strengths of this book is that in less than 300 pages , in an economical and restrained style , the author delivers a state-of-the-art report . |
| 28 | Here … the payment of the majority of the men each week takes place four and a half thousand men are handed their wages by the pay-clerks in less than ten minutes . |
| 29 | The six trains for which the LMS were responsible were handed over to the Military authorities in less than three weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ His enunciation proved prophetic , for in less than twenty-four hours he was no more . ’ |