The phrase "are given less time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations where individuals or groups have a reduced amount of time to complete a task or activity.
Example: "In this competition, participants are given less time to prepare than in previous years."
Alternatives: "receive less time" or "have reduced time".
Writers are given less time now in which to emerge as being substantial.
But as income has fallen, artists are given less time to turn a profit.
Drivers are given less time to prove themselves before the next trend comes along.
There is however evidence that older patients are given less time during the physician-patient interview [ 5], are provided less information on their diagnoses and prognoses [ 2, 6] and are less likely to discuss their EoL preferences [ 2, 7].
If academics are now spending a greater proportion of their time on research, this does not obviously mean they are giving less time to students: a natural explanation is just that they are working longer hours.
When participants were given less time, however, as many as half were called impossible.
Women had a harder time gaining entry to prestigious training programs, and they were given less time to study for mandatory tests than their male colleagues were.
Asylum seekers will be given less time to put their claims to the department, with more stringent limits on appeal rights.
She said that scientists were given less time than usual to provide expert comment on draft sections of the environmental reviews — just 48 hours in some cases — and that their comments were sometimes not acknowledged.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will be given less time – a week – between its theatrical release in the UK and US on 8 November and its online premiere on 16 November – as will Bird Box, which goes into theatres on 13 December before going online on 21 December.
Employees in Guernsey who do not want to work on a Sunday could be given less time to warn bosses.
