Sentence examples for shorter of two from inspiring English sources

Tracing out the shortest path (i.e. always taking the shorter of two alternative routes to a destination, ignoring spurs, etc) through the maze produces, for each side except the starred side, an approximation of an image of a hand.

Mr. Seliga, who once managed Kennedy Airport, showed off the master plan for expanding Stewart, which includes building a passenger terminal and lengthening the shorter of two runways to 8,000 feet from 6,000 feet.

Furthermore, we removed the shorter of two overlapping terms, which added 2.5 percentage points to the F-score, to reach 90.9% for the CDI task and 89.5% for the CEM task.

Tumour volume (V) was calculated as V=(π/6) ab, where a is the longer and b is the shorter of two perpendicular diameters, measured with callipers.

Tumour volume (V) was calculated as V=(π/6) ab, where a is the longer and b is the shorter of two perpendicular diameters, measured with calipers.

In addition, the right border of the pCAMBIA cassette on chromosome II was shorter of two base-pairs compared to the one on chromosome III (Additional file 1).

Intravascular pressure measurements were taken every four hours for the shorter of seven days or duration of mechanical ventilation.

We were short of two or three works of rehearsal.

The match ended two minutes short of two hours.

This would produce a 60‐to‐36 vote still four votes short of two thirds.

Capriati won in a couple of minutes short of two hours.