The phrase "a much shorter duration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the length of time of one event or situation to another, indicating that the first has significantly less time involved.
Example: "The new process will result in a much shorter duration for project completion compared to the previous method."
Alternatives: "a significantly reduced time" or "a considerably lesser duration."
While the period of detention at issue in Zadvydas was "indefinite" and "potentially permanent," the detention here is of a much shorter duration.
This little crisis was of a much shorter duration than our account of it, but then it could have hardly have been longer, for it had taken five hours including nodding-off breaks to read it.
Yet by combining both mixtures one obtains cycles with a much shorter duration.
Afterslip has a much shorter duration than typical interseismic intervals; therefore, we neglect tectonic loading also in this case.
This last step was achieved within 1 h, a much shorter duration compared to conventional routes which usually take several hours to few days.
We already know that propofol has a similar mode of action to benzodiazepine, but with a much shorter duration of action [10].
Microstate 4 was followed by a microstate, Microstate 5 (from 232 280 ms, Figure 3A green bars) that, although present during processing of all four classes of stimuli, had a significantly much shorter duration for U and T than for Usc and Tsc (F 3, 57) = 3.23, p = 0.03).
On Earth, in humans, a year might be required to detect changes in telomeres, but in space there is a predictably much shorter duration required for detection, which is therefore more reasonable in time and cost.
Of note, the maximum recorded ICP during the procedure was always during bronchoscopy, although a smaller increase in ICP, for much shorter duration (recorded as being less than one minute in each instance), was also noted during direct laryngoscopy and passage of the single stage dilator and the tracheostomy tube.
This may in part be because faecal counts provide an index of habitat use integrated over many months, whereas browsing events are of much shorter duration.
Although the incidence of delirium occurrence was the same in both groups, the patients in the experimental group experienced much shorter duration of delirium, with less severity [12].
