Example sentences of "fraction of [art] time " in BNC.

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1 If he took the short cut across the beck , he would arrive there in a fraction of the time .
2 With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers .
3 Defrosting a fridge also took a fraction of the time .
4 You can brown roasts or bake golden pastries perfectly , in a fraction of the time .
5 The words partial knitting do sound very technical to new knitters but if you are familiar with hand knitting you will discover that partial knitting is what hand knitters term ‘ knit to so many stitches , turn and knit back ’ , although , of course , doing it by machine takes a fraction of the time .
6 Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere .
7 Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun .
8 Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves .
9 The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes .
10 Luke Hunter was the sort of man who rode roughshod over everyone else 's opinions — if she had been there alone she was sure she could have convinced them in a fraction of the time .
11 If you lead a hectically busy life , a microwave oven can be a real life- and time-saver , cooking food in a fraction of the time required by a normal oven .
12 Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate .
13 He , more than any other ornithologist , knew what to look for and would be able , with the help of a few hand-picked collectors , to assemble a substantial collection in a fraction of the time it would take should he stay home and await specimens sent by less reliable amateurs .
14 Simple reaction time is a fraction of the time required to react even when having to choose between only two possibilities .
15 It is possible to define quite accurately the fraction of the time that the motion is turbulent .
16 We now see that the intermittency factor is most appropriately defined as the fraction of the time that vorticity fluctuations are occurring .
17 The intermittency factor , defined as the fraction of the time that the fluctuations are chaotic , varies continuously across the transition zone from 0 at the ordered side to 1 at the fully chaotic side .
18 And although tractors could do the work in a fraction of the time , the shire horses have advantages too .
19 Tractors may take a fraction of the time to do the job .
20 ‘ The tests were poor discriminators and , in terms of checking on their progress and diagnosing their weaknesses , we could do a far better job ourselves in a fraction of the time , ’ he declared
21 Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time .
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