Isn't there something shorter?

He's shorter than Tom.

I am shorter than you.

My sister is shorter than you.

Ideas get shorter. They become sound bytes.

They get a little shorter at 9 a.m.

Is there a shorter road to get there?

So the shorter the bar, less angiogenesis, that's good.

First of all, worse nutrition, maybe shorter life spans.

Food processors tend to be shorter and wider than blenders.

It is expected that this trend towards shorter trials will continue.

As we age, our time horizons grow shorter and our goals change.

If her nose were a little shorter, she would be quite pretty.

The measures that will make this period shorter have already been taken.

And those symmetries, then, make the equations even shorter, and even prettier, therefore.

Here's a monkey eye view. Monkeys are shorter, so it's a little short.

Shorter reports on progress of work were also submitted at the intervening sessions.

Early indications are that the trial will be completed in a shorter time.

My brother is two years older than I, but he is three centimeters shorter.

Shorter national military service for parents of large families, children of unmarried mothers, etc.

UNIDO's seminar in Romania was shorter and follow up relied mostly on the NOU.

By applying the defined criteria, the panel developed a more concise and considerably shorter list.

The author thus disagrees with the shorter length of punishment claimed by the State party.

There are papers by experts focusing on the theme and shorter articles on other subjects.

It was also of the opinion that the reports should be shorter and better targeted.

In China, children shorter than 1.1m don't need to buy a ticket to travel by train.

We need better criteria for details and procedures to make that happen in the shorter term.

Some delegations called for a shorter, user friendly version of the plan to help its dissemination.

But, with 90 days left to bridge the ideological and partisan divide before another crisis erupts, the fuse on America s debt bomb is getting shorter and shorter. As a dysfunctional US government peers into the abyss, China America s largest foreign creditor has much at stake.

And the downs are going to be much longer and the ups are going to be much shorter.

The Bonobo, although shorter than us and their arms still longer, is more upright, just as we are.

... but it strikes me as a slightly unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter.

I did resist the temptation to skip to the back where the shorter and more clearly mystical chapters are.

I mean, if you have an idea worth spreading, surely you can put it into something shorter than 2,300 words.

At the same time, women could only talk 20 of the television time, as their statements were shorter than men's.

Now, it's often said that getting closer and closer to the fundamental laws by examining phenomena at low energies, and then higher energies, and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion.

And when I held my bronze one up against my Sculpey one, it was shorter by three quarters of an inch.

Although the quality of documents was generally appreciated, some suggested using less technical or complicated language and that documents be shorter.

The other problem that people have is they like to condense their stories of innovation down to kind of shorter time frames.

Some Trial Chamber Sections sit in morning and afternoon shifts. These sessions are shorter than full trial days, by about two hours.

Such a decision would avoid the inevitable disruptions to the substantive work of the Commission that result from shorter term mandate renewals.

In post conflict countries, shorter term humanitarian relief must help form the basis for longer term development efforts to achieve the Goals.

The conventional thinking is that as traders buy and sell corporate stocks more often, they induce corporate managers to plan for shorter and shorter horizons. If institutional investors refuse to hold stocks for more than a few months, the thinking goes, CEOs time horizons for corporate planning must shrink to roughly the same timeframe.

Shorter wavelengths may be scattered by the tree canopy, however, longer wavelengths tend to penetrate it and be reflected by the underlying soil.

We, the adults of the last four generations, have blessed our children with the destiny of a shorter lifespan than their own parents.