Sentence examples for is being shortened from inspiring English sources
The times they are spending on various types of toys is being shortened.
Two new police academies are to be established, and the normal three-year training program is being shortened for college graduates.
But its hold on the spotlight has ebbed in recent decades as charity megaconcerts, pledge weeks and celebrity appeals have proliferated; the show is being shortened and reformatted.
The much criticised Everything Everywhere company name and shop brand is being shortened to EE, which will also become the consumer brand for the superfast service, and will be used to launch a foray into fixed line fibre broadband.
The program, which has been on the air since May 2010, will undergo other changes: It is being shortened to a half-hour from an hour and taking on a more politics-focused format, and the executive producer, Shelley Lewis, is leaving for a job elsewhere in television news.
The president's trip to Indonesia is being shortened due to volcanic eruptions that have been wracking the nation since October 26.
PARENTS often complain that their lives are being shortened by the stress of having children, yet numerous studies suggest the opposite: that it is the childless who die young, not those who have procreated.
"Skyscrapers are being shortened or stopped entirely due to lack of money, and luxury construction sites from Dubai and Abu Dhabi to Moscow and Peking are lying fallow," a writer in Die Welt noted.
It said use of the code rose from 11% of patients in 2008 to more than 30% in mid-2011, whicameame during a time when waiting time targets were being shortened.
However, due to population pressure and the intensifying demand for food, fallow periods are being shortened, and the need to cultivate the more fragile uplands and marginal lands is becoming heightened (Andriesse et al. 1994; Ogunremi et al. 2000; Thenkabail and Nolte 1995).
