shorten from
Frequency: 6.26.7 per million words
used with 'to' to indicate the starting point of a reduction
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Examples (10)
- The waiting time has been shortened from eight weeks to just one week.
- They decided to shorten the meeting from two hours to one.
- The company plans to shorten the production cycle from 30 days to 20.
- We need to shorten the journey from London to Paris by taking a faster train.
- The artist decided to shorten his stay from a month to two weeks.
- The government aims to shorten the application process from six months to three.
- The professor will shorten the lecture from an hour to 45 minutes.
- Can we shorten the duration of the contract from five years to three?
- They managed to shorten the repair time from a week to just two days.
- The new software will shorten the processing time from several hours to a few minutes.