Sentence examples for a third shorter than from inspiring English sources

Their lives are about a third shorter than those of their countrymen.

But cycling remains mired in this "delicate flower" mentality, with women's races routinely a third shorter than men's (even though there's a strong case to be made for equalising the distances downwards rather than upwards).

They tracked these males, recorded their songs and monitored their behaviour.Their first observation was that the songs of those males that had suffered fleas in early life were a third shorter than those sung by the others.

And it could do all this from a track that was a third shorter than a conventional runway.Altogether, according to Airbus's back-of-the-envelope calculations, Eco-climb would reduce fuel consumption by 3% on a typical 900km (560-mile) flight, even with existing aircraft designs.

SO MASSIVE was the undersea earthquake that struck near the Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Monday December 26th that the entire planet may have wobbled on its axis, henceforth making each day a fraction of a second shorter than before.

An analysis of ChrY revealed that it was one third shorter than expected, and exome sequencing did not identify any additional mutations.

Operations Manager Andrea Accomazzo confirmed that the lander's radar altimeter did switch on and that its retro rockets fired up to slow its descent, "but only for a few seconds, shorter than expected," he said.

The technique could produce pulses lasting only a billionth of a billionth of a second, far shorter than the pulses at the X-FELs and short enough to allow researchers to resolve ultrafast changes within molecules.

That could be a challenge in a world where the human attention span has fallen to eight seconds, shorter than a goldfish, according to a recent Microsoft study.

"Still, we're stuck with a situation where school days are two-thirds shorter than workdays and the school year has 30percentt fewer days than the school year".

Now, in a move that underlines how giant marketers are seeking new ways to reach consumers, G.E., BBDO and two other agencies are introducing an elaborate campaign centered on a version of the series that is 1,799 seconds shorter than the original.