Sentence examples for were kept short from inspiring English sources

Back then international calls were kept short.

Conversations with potential friends were kept short as I had to make time for romantic dates at Byron Hamburgers.

Undercover researchers found assessments were kept short – 11minutes on average – which experts say makes it "near impossible" to properly assess a new patient.

Sliding distances were kept short because the focus of the work was on the initial transfer behavior.

The solution was maintained at its liquidus concentration to avoid melting or freezing, and the time scales were kept short to avoid coarsening of the snow.

Furthermore, measurement cables and connections were kept short to further minimize parasitic capacitance effects and were the same for all samples.

That's really why text messages are kept short.

There also have been calls for the political sermonizing to be curtailed and the rally to be kept short.

Hair, again French or Italian in cut, was kept short and neat - this was true of both girls and boys.

Some Libyan exiles suggest the city may have been kept short of medical supplies as punishment for an Islamist insurrection in the mid-1990s.

Carbon can burn either to carbon dioxide or, if the supply of air is kept short, to carbon monoxide, by a process known as the producer gas reaction.