shorten from

Frequency: 6.26.7 per million words

used with 'to' to indicate the starting point of a reduction

Categories:

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.