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

Isn't there something shorter?

He's shorter than Tom.

I am shorter than you.

Austria, a neighboring country, slightly similar, slightly different.

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.

And where you have slightly more complex things, you can get slightly more complex things.

Eilidh is slightly modest.

Here it's slightly logged.

Ah, mm slightly different.

The professor smiled slightly.

Food processors tend to be shorter and wider than blenders.

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

But it slightly bores me.

And slightly to one side.

Similar. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

Their marketing is slightly different.

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.

You're actually doing slightly worse not significantly, but slightly worse. You don't want to be a lithium patient this time.

And slightly more complex things appear.

Him giving me respect? Slightly different.

So it becomes slightly three dimensional.

The food tasted slightly of garlic.

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.

Other key financial indicators had slightly deteriorated.

Your sequence and mine are slightly different.

I'm also slightly in awe of them.

So my art became slightly more critical.

Okay, they think money is slightly important.

Two of the crew were slightly injured.

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.

The slightly better outcome in 2004 was the result of new obligations being somewhat lower than expected and payments to Member States slightly higher.

Bonobos are built slightly smaller than the chimpanzee.