Sentence examples for drastically shorten from inspiring English sources

She also has a seriously debilitating skin condition that could drastically shorten her life.

Also known as floppy baby syndrome, the genetic condition leaves children with little control of their movements and can drastically shorten life expectancy.

The officials of North America's largest cross-country ski marathon, scheduled for today, first decided to drastically shorten the race, from 28.6 miles to 14.2 miles, because so much snow had melted away.

New Senate rules on the filibuster, adopted Thursday after weeks of negotiations and the threat of a crisis in Congress's upper chamber, don't do away with many of the old roadblocks that had ground the Senate almost to a halt, but they will drastically shorten the distance between the hurdles and lower their height for easier clearance.

Though Vincente Minnelli was reportedly having trouble with his speech on the set in Rome, his health didn't truly affect the quality of his work — but, as Griffin writes, Minnelli's difficulty explaining his plans to Arkoff certainly contributed to the producer's decision to take over the footage in the editing room and drastically shorten and re-cut it.

"Nutritionists agree that even average Americans consume twice as much protein as they need; bodybuilders take in 20 to 30 times too much, and high-protein intake can drastically shorten life span," she alleges, evidently oblivious of the extreme demands that hypertrophy, the process of increasing muscle mass, makes on the body.

In subsequent years the film appeared drastically shortened.

The reviews were savage, even after the film had been drastically shortened.

What is needed is a compromise that keeps markets linked but drastically shortens the possible wait.

The aerial stem is drastically shortened (reduced) in some Iridaceae and Orchidaceae.

The composition of the group's executive committee is a drastically shortened version of the list that appeared only a week ago.