The phrase "already too short" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is insufficient in length or duration, often in contexts like time, text, or physical measurements.
Example: "The meeting was already too short to cover all the important topics we needed to discuss."
Alternatives: "already insufficient" or "already not long enough".
The only note of comfort: it is just possible that the hairdresser who exuberantly informed the Mail of this phenomenon is having us on a bit, since the picture provided of customers queuing round the block features several men whose hair is already too short to protrude once they stick a bowl on their bonce.
"What?" he wrote, in raised-eyebrow horror, "You pretend to ask us to contribute to a work, the object of which is to shorten a distance which we find already too short?" This was the most striking moment in this otherwise rather droopy archive, stuffed with too many stilted French accents reading quotations about as long as the tunnel itself.
(My mother's hair was already too short to hack away dramatically).
As it is, our academic year is already too short and the quality of our children's education is suffering.
However, teacher development must be done without eliminating four days from an academic year that is already too short.
Life is already too short and challenging; don't make it more so by making yourself feel bad.
The department is already far too short of staff and the stakes couldn't be higher," AFSCME spokesman Anders Lindall said.
A second novel she had already begun proved too short of breath and appeared as a short story titled 'The Dummy' in the September 1963 issue of Harper's Bazaar.Otherwise, journalism and essays predominated until the fall of 1965, and for good reasons.
Present rules give overseas graduates up to four months to find a suitable job before leaving the UK, a window some already viewed as too short and less than the 12 months offered by the likes of the US, Australia and Canada.
But she leaves humiliated, having been told – very publicly – that her plan was not acceptable and that she would have to come up with a solution to the lingering Irish border question within a timeframe she had already indicated was too short.
Indeed, the time after which the nucleosomal ladder is already visible (30') is too short for other causes (e.g. lack of nutrients or of growth factors) to be responsible for it.
