The word "shortens" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to an action that reduces something or makes something shorter in time. For example, "By taking shorter breaks throughout the day, she was able to shorten her work hours by leaving earlier."
His most recent research argues that fiscal spending could be self-financing if it shortens unemployment spells.
As the firm expands the number of drivers it has in a market, the time it takes for a car to get to a customer shortens, which attracts more passengers, which in turn begets more drivers.
A climax of his performances was a cross-eyed nirami (glare), said to drive off evil, that he had to project right to the back of the theatre.Kabuki fans are convinced the intensity of acting and carrying around centuries of tradition shortens the lives of the greatest performers.
Humans and ecosystems alike are particularly vulnerable to disease if the "return time" between extreme events shortens in future.The project was supported by the United Nations Development Programme, whose primary focus is poverty, and Swiss Re, a reinsurance giant devoted to managing global risk.
And what is the point of being in Congress, if you can't pass a law that shortens your commute?
But to do it convincingly is a tall order that would need a much broader conceptual and geographical framework than Mr Starr's.In his later chapters the timescale shortens and the policy detail grows denser as Mr Starr limits himself in effect to the contemporary United States.
Nor is it murder if, to relieve pain, a doctor administers a drug that as a side effect shortens the patient's life the "double-effect principle".The last time Parliament picked its way through this moral mire was in 1994, when another House of Lords select committee decided not to change the law.
This shortens the telomere and, after 50-70 such divisions (a number known as the Hayflick limit, after its discoverer), a chromosome can grow no shorter and the cell it is in can divide no more.That provides a backstop against cancer.
Long-term stress damages health, and ultimately shortens lifespans.
This shortens the lines of command for split-second decisions.
Many big new television shows are launched during Ramadan, accounting for a third of annual advertising revenue for Arab satellite television stations.But for many businesses, especially government ones, productivity plummets as the working day shortens by two or three hours.
