"three times shorter" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to compare the length of two objects, ideas, or measurements. Example: "The first book was 600 pages long, while the second one was three times shorter at only 200 pages."
Under a bias voltage of 20 V, its response time reaches 750 ns, which is about three times shorter than that of the phototransistor.
Testicular PK genes had two to three times shorter 5'-spacers (p<0.005) with significantly lower GC content (p<0.02) in the promoter regions than ubiquitously expressed PKs genes and genes up-regulated in nervous tissue (Table 1, Figure 2).
This interval is more than three times shorter than for the ever-married women.
From a practical point of view, the genome simulated in this study was approximately three times shorter than the real pig genome (10 M instead of 30 M).
For example, we characterized the residence times of synthetic polymers that are three times shorter than those estimated with existing algorithms.
Active enhancer elements have a mean lifetime three times shorter than active promoters do, despite similar alignability of their underlying DNA sequences.
She married three times, short-lived attachments, and carried on other romances about which little is known.
Hernandez -- almost always stoic when he pitches -- shouted and raised both fists, pumping them once, twice, three times, short jabs as he walked off the mound, staring toward the ground.
The zebra mussel expansion typically occurs earlier13,14,41 with an invasion lag time five times shorter than the quagga mussel14,42,43.
The payback period for presented solar systems is up to four times shorter than for a glazed solar collector system.
The results showed that CPU time of the meshless methods was ten to one hundred times shorter than that of FEM to obtain the same accuracy.
