Example sentences of "[is] shorter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanna , 18 , schoolgirl ( left ) : ‘ This dress is shorter and tighter than I usually wear . ’ |
| 2 | The arch shown on the less reliable Lyon coin is shorter and squatter . |
| 3 | The answer is shorter than the question . |
| 4 | He is shorter than the tallest of men , yet taller and more noble than those of middle height . |
| 5 | Sometimes this is because the length of students ' courses is shorter , sometimes ( because the programmes are included as part of course studies ) there is the opportunity for college librarians to introduce the programmes at an early stage . |
| 6 | If you are wondering why the Festival is shorter than usual — do n't worry — we 'll be back to our ‘ normal ’ July spot in 1993 [ Friday 9th–Sunday 18th ] ! |
| 7 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 8 | The new body is shorter , lower and wider than the current seven-year-old design . |
| 9 | In each case the teacher tried to encourage the use also of ‘ opposites ’ ; Steven is taller than Linda — Linda is shorter than Steven . |
| 10 | However , paradoxically , and as Griffith pointed out , as long as the crack is shorter than the critical length , nothing will happen — however high the stress at the tip may be . |
| 11 | The reverse is true , of course , if the crack is shorter . |
| 12 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 13 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 14 | The appearance is such that if the viewer did not know better then he would say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ . |
| 15 | Bertelli 's text is shorter , but does include a catalogue of the surviving paintings and a chronological table . |
| 16 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
| 17 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
| 18 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 19 | Under Bloch 's type of analysis , the statement that Hemingway uses " short sentences amounts to a claim that the average length of a Hemingway sentence is shorter ( to a significant extent ) than the average length of an English sentence : something which can in principle be verified or falsified . |
| 20 | After the equinox , day length increases faster further north , that is , the period between 24-hour darkness and midnight Sun is shorter at high latitudes north of the polar circle . |
| 21 | The expression ‘ dishonestly appropriates ’ in clause 1(1) means the same as ‘ fraudulently converts to his own use or benefit , or for the use or benefit of any other person ’ in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 20(1) ( iv ) ; but the former expression is shorter and , we hope , clearer . |
| 22 | More recently , Caramazza , Gordon , Zurif and De Luca ( 1976 ) found right brain damaged patients to be impaired relative to controls on tests requiring the answer to such questions as " who is shorter ? " , given that " A is taller than B " . |
| 23 | If M and N are any two positions , then say fc(M)>fc(N) if either all entries in fc(M) are strictly positive , and fc(M) is shorter than fc(N) or fc(M) and fc(N) have the same length , and the first few entries in fc(M) and fc(N) are equal and the next entry of fc(M) is larger than that of fc(N) . |
| 24 | The non-university institutions have more mature entrants , more without formal qualifications , more from social classes III-V , their effective length of course is shorter , and they will be less affected by a switch to longer science and engineering courses than will the university sector . |
| 25 | Intron 2 is shorter ( 1056 nt ) and possesses no ORF . |
| 26 | i ) It is congruent with the traditional fungal taxonomy and with phylogenetic trees of fungi based on nuclear SSUrRNA data : the two pyrenomycetes ( P.anserina and N.crassa ) branch very closely together and their distance to A.nidulans , a representative of the plectomycetes , is shorter than that to S.cerevisiae , belonging to the endomycetes. ii ) The position of P.wickerhamii is unexpectedly closer to S.cerevisiae than to all other ascomycetes , whereas the distance between S.cerevisiae and P.wickerhamii lies in the same range as that between the two ascomycetes , S.cerevisiae and A.nidulans . |
| 27 | Focusing exclusively on the positions of P.wickerhamii ri1 , ri2 and So ri2 in a phylogenetic tree , the distance between the two homologous introns So ri2 and Pw ri2 is shorter than that between ri1 and ri2 of P.wickerhamii ( data not shown ) . |
| 28 | If the text is shorter than the width of the block reduce the width to that of the text by dragging the handles in before you copy the text . |
| 29 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 30 | However , if the surface is dome-shaped like the surface P the circumference is shorter and . |