Sentence examples for less overnight from inspiring English sources

It was all quite innocent.' As John remembers it, 'the change' happened more or less overnight.

The economy cannot get by with trillions less overnight without "seriously stunting growth," Fitch wrote in December.

"The Lives of Others" was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and established Mukherjee's literary reputation more or less overnight, but "A Life Apart," the earlier novel, has remained unpublished in America until now.

Last winter, "Man with a Plan" began playing in several New England cities--during a 10-week run in Burlington it outgrossed "Sense and Sensibility --and, more or leSensibility --andd Tuttle became a cultural icon.

Like all recognizable ways of working, the "mumblecore" filmmakers have attracted imitators and aroused resentment; more or less overnight, they rendered much of the independent-film scene somewhere between stodgy and obsolete, and it's no surprise that those cast in its shadow would kick back.

This smallness means that highbrow reputation and political plausibility can be twinned: a brilliant man from a well-known family who gives a good lecture and gets the notice of a few big people can become a party leader more or less overnight.

Three-month interbank rates also rose in London but by much less than overnight rates.

On September 11th, the figure more or less doubled overnight (see chart).The scale of the change has been, to use Lincoln's term, astounding.

The price of this paper quickly collapsed to 15 cents on the dollar or less, destroying overnight twice as much value as Lehman's shareholders had seen evaporate over several months.These losses set off a spiral in money markets.

He more or less decided overnight to vote for the measure, Mr. Sweeney said, but at 3 this afternoon he still had qualms and was following the debate on television in his office, "just to make absolutely sure I'm making the right decision".

The world doesn't become less homophobic overnight just because you have come to terms with your sexuality.