The phrase "two times shorter" can be considered grammatically correct and is commonly used in spoken and informal written English.
It is often used as a colloquial way to express something being half the length of something else. Example: "I'm not going to buy this dress, it's two times shorter than the one I tried on yesterday." In this sentence, the speaker is using "two times shorter" to mean that the dress they are looking at is half the length of the dress they tried on the day before.
The lifetime of ZP-M13 is two times shorter than that of ZnDPEG (see Fig. 10).
Accordingly, in h-BN, the length of intralayer bonds is more than two times shorter than that of interlayer bonds.
BPSK with REC pulse and two times shorter pulse duration (to deliver 2 bits per channel use) have similar error performance but two times wider bandwidth than QFSK κ = 1 ∕ 2. On the other hand, QFSK receiver consists of parallel bank of matched filters (number of filters equals to the dimensionality) while BPSK receiver has only one filter.
Results show that the turnover time of soil carbon was longest in the area where fire occurred 2 years ago (117 years) and approximately two times shorter (ca. 60 years) in the areas where fire occurred 42, 60 and 152 years ago.
This IGS region in the subfamily Thalictroideae is nearly two times shorter than in other angiosperms.
At the same time, the product of KALB_4567 is two times shorter than typical linocin M18.
As the cyclists pedalled, a screen in front of them periodically flashed images of happy or sad faces in imperceptible sixteen-millisecond bursts, ten to twenty times shorter than a typical blink.
This is roughly a million million times shorter than experiments can measure directly, but physicists can detect the particles into which the W and Z particles decay and can thus infer their existence.
"So there's an eight times shorter cycle [for electronics]," he says.
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.
