The phrase "a far less time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the duration of two different activities or events, indicating that one takes significantly less time than the other.
Example: "Completing the project using the new software took a far less time than we initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "much shorter time" or "considerably less time".
Today, though, comes news of a breakthrough that would deliver radiotherapy in a far less time-consuming, cheaper (for both the patient and the NHS) and easier way.
There has been a trend among medical schools to eliminate the gross anatomy lab dissection, replacing it with a (far less time-consuming) study of predissected, preserved prosections and computerized simulations.
On the other hand, a person calling a 911 operator after committing a crime has far less time for strategic wordsmithery and may use fewer, simpler words to suppress or control verbal cues for deception.
In the case of Officer A, however, it took far less time.
Typically, she said, animals are stranded for just a few days, far less time to win public attention.
But under a complicated system of federal sentencing guidelines, he is expected to receive a sentence of far less time, even when the guilty plea is factored in.
In one study, college students who had recently seen a photo of a stack of money spent far less time eating a bar of chocolate -- gulping it down rather than relishing each bite -- and displayed far fewer signs of enjoyment than those students who hadn't seen the money.
This may be particularly true of a symphony orchestra, which spends far less time a year with its music director — the dependable, lovable spouse — than with a series of guest conductors that inevitably include some flashy what-ifs who were once in line for the top job.
Regardless of all these manipulations, given that s6803 has 3722 genes, promed4 has 1760, and pro9313 has 2328, even if it takes several minutes for SNARK to compute a solution, this is far less time than it would take a biologist to do the same work manually or using spreadsheets.
But the applicants are promised a decision within 120 days, far less time than a lawsuit would take.
A scientist will typically spend far less time on a blog post than he or she would spend on a paper reporting the results of his or her research or a conference presentation; users commenting on a scientist's blog post may often simply write whatever first comes to mind.
