Sentence examples for shorter longer from inspiring English sources

Here in Lucerne, we can continue, shorter, longer, just as we like it.

Copying has become so pervasive that Owen can only speculate what our world would be without it: "fewer lawyers, larger forests, smaller landfills, no Pentagon Papers, no laser printers, more (fewer?) bureaucrats, shorter (longer?) meetings, better memories, more secrets, fewer cartoons on our refrigerators".

The precipitation and discharge decreased (increased) during El Niño (La Niña) and the annual flood period was shorter (longer) during El Niño (La Niña).

As the payoff from being employed rises (falls), the unemployed will search more (less), and this translates into the a shorter (longer) unemployment spell.

Importantly, for both the instrumental record and preinstrumental reconstructions, the wet (dry) epochs in the rainfall record are shorter (longer) in the streamflow record and this non-linearity must be considered when inferring hydroclimatic risk or historical water availability directly from rainfall proxy records alone.

The lower correlations shown by smaller earthquakes could be qualitatively explained if the characteristic distance discussed in the "Method for computing slip rate" (denoted by D c) depends on the scale of irregularities, such that smaller (larger) irregularities have shorter (longer) characteristic distances (e.g., Matsu'ura et al. 1992).

"We traded a short longer-term asset (Soler) for a short-term asset (Davis)," Hoyer said.

Exceptions to the general gene length conservation are Arabidopsis and grape, whose LKR/SDH genes are shorter and longer, respectively, due to shorter and longer intron lengths.

The probe rectangle was either shorter or longer than the target rectangle and participants were required to decide whether the probe was shorter or longer than the target.

Elephants are shorter, with longer, straighter tusks.

"The Web is better for shorter and longer," he said.