Example sentences of "a [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cyberscience says that reports can often be produced in a hundredth of the time that it takes with Cobol . |
| 2 | So we want to do this is in a sixth of the time , right ? |
| 3 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 4 | And with son Peter living at Norwich , he and his wife can travel there in a third of the time it would take by road . |
| 5 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 6 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 7 | WKSH allows programmers to write windowing apps in shell language , reportedly in about a tenth of the time of an equivalent C-based X Windows application . |
| 8 | Well it 'll take a tenth of the time would n't it . |
| 9 | He says , We want this job done in a tenth of the time . |
| 10 | The benefits in terms of reliability and speed are dramatic enough — reckons that what took 20 minutes to send down a line can now take a tenth of the time . |