Sentence examples similar to shortening- from inspiring English sources

The rapid shortening in the lifespan of a meme is apparent.

Our dysfunctional land market is one of the key barriers to house building, so I'm delighted to see proposals to tackle land banking such as charging council tax on undeveloped land and shortening the time before a planning permission expires.

With the clock ticking and the odds shortening on a Greek default, they are still waiting for the Tsipras programme.

A Treasury source said that shortening the timescale from five years to two or three would make it a "much more binding target".

The odds on Ed Miliband being pictured adopting an abandoned greyhound, or Nigel Farage petting a prize bull, must be shortening by the hour.

What's new is that traffickers are supplying boats, shortening migrants' journeys by sea instead of over the land border.

Every time you tweet a URL, Twitter is shortening the URL for you.

The Shape We're In: How Junk Food and Diets Are Shortening Our Lives, by Sarah Boseley is published today by Guardian Faber at £12.99.

It means shortening the supply chain.

Western Länder began shortening the Gymnasium course, clearing out their curriculums and controlling their schools' output through state-wide exams.

But it breaks a cherished French pattern of progressively shortening the amount of time people spend at work.