Sentence examples for shorter question from inspiring English sources

So when I see Charlie Rose (yes, I know he's supposed to be one of the good ones out there, but Charlie, ask a shorter question now and then) and others supposedly in the business of interviewing go on long enough for me to go to the kitchen to make a sandwich, I wonder: Does he enjoy interviewing, or does he simply enjoy his own celebrity?

This shorter question could have produced much higher responses that would have led to a higher estimated population size.

At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential nominees, the advisers said.

The Speaker asked for shorter questions.

They also often ask shorter questions, like "what's the weather?," not carry on long conversations.

Hence, as the length of hospital stays become shorter, questions about patient safety emerge [ 11].

Patients completing shorter questions are older and have lower health status compared with patients completing the comprehensive questionnaire.

Having one longer (e.g., 20 mark) question per assessment mixed with shorter questions should lead to qualitative differences in students learning.

"OK," he says finally, "that is a long answer to your short question.

That's a long answer to a short question, but I'm Irish, you'll have to forgive me.

"The short question therefore is whether the declaratory conclusions in this action constituted the making of a relevant claim".