Sentence examples for been much shorter from inspiring English sources
Indian budget speeches have been much shorter.
"It's hard for me to think," he said, that the questioning "would have been much shorter even if there had been no showing of pervasive prejudice".
This book is a short, fast read, but it would have been much shorter without the parade of minor figures who now take over the story.
According to the Bible, we can expect to reach 70 ("threescore years and 10"), or 80 if we're strong, though when those words were first written, the average lifespan would have been much shorter.
Besides Dorothy and the guard, there is the Cowardly Lion, who bawls when Dorothy bops him on the nose; the Tin Man, who almost rusts up again from weeping; and Dorothy again, while she is in the clutches of the Witch It occurs to you that if the hydrophobic Witch could only have been closer at hand on one of these occasions the movie might have been much shorter.
It's essentially an expanded format of what had previously been much shorter clips when it was aired on TV.
