Sentence examples for designed to be shorter from inspiring English sources

33 In this study the PDMS pillars were specifically designed to be shorter than their diameter.

The melting temperature of these probes is thereby significantly increased; hence they can be designed to be shorter [ 10, 11].

The choice of appraisal process (STA or MTA) was an obvious parameter for inclusion, since STAs are designed to be shorter than MTAs.

PCR primers were designed to amplify all known splice-variants, and the size of the PCR product was designed to be shorter than 150 bp to accommodate degraded RNA in archived FFPE samples.

Interest rates are often above 5,000% APR, but because borrowing is designed to be short-term, lenders claim this is not a fair reflection of the costs.

But Mr. Cuomo stressed that the state takeover was designed to be short-lived, and last no longer than three years.

Consumer groups say the interest rates charged on what are designed to be short-term loans are as much as 4,000% APR, and that low-income borrowers often end up rolling over their borrowings and accruing large debts.

Payday lenders offer loans of between £100 and £1,000 arranged over days or weeks, and argue that because borrowing is designed to be short term the costs involved are no higher than charges applied by mainstream lenders.

Although lenders insist payday loans are designed to be short-term products, and that APRs of more than 4,000% are not a fair reflection of the cost of borrowing, the OFT said almost a third of loans taken out in 2011/12 had been rolled over at least once, and these accounted for almost half lenders' revenues.

The regulator is particularly keen to look at the automatic "rollover" of overdue loans, which are supposedly designed to be short-term products; the use of so-called continuous payment authorities, which allow lenders to keep trying to collect missed repayments from a borrower's debit card; and problems with upfront credit checks.

With MBA courses designed to be short and intensive, and with a vast range of ages, nationalities and backgrounds invariably represented, most business schools now spend a good deal of time and effort helping students (and often their partners and families) feel at home, involved and, crucially, on top of their course from day one.