Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
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Examples for "lengthen "
Examples for "lengthen "
1 Prison officers claim new security screening measures will lengthen their working day.
2 Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.'
3 It is unacceptable for governments to stand by as dole queues lengthen .
4 Proceeds of the issue will help the firm lengthen its maturity profile.
5 Lithium is known to lengthen period and increase amplitude of circadian rhythms.
1 RARE-sequences help to shorten investigation time, particularly in cases involving the skeleton.
2 A higher spiking concentration made it possible to shorten the detection time.
3 Unusually dry winters and higher water consumption could shorten this deadline considerably.
4 Hospitals are encouraged to take every effort to shorten delay of treatment.
5 I see something is doing in England to shorten the apprenticeship system.
6 A number of experts have tipped him and he could shorten again.
7 The fear of being detected kept Gillian ready to shorten the time.
8 Remdesivir has been shown to shorten the recovery time from the coronavirus.
9 Such sedatives may reduce the pulse, but do not shorten the disease.
10 Full occupation during the intervening period has seemed to shorten the interval.
11 At first it had been a luxury that would shorten the war.
12 In this way I will shorten long winter without the birds' song.
13 The souls in purgatory can do nothing to shorten their time there.
14 More bimakalim was required to shorten APs during mild and moderate hypothermia.
15 DeBoer started to shuffle his lines and shorten his bench at midgame.
16 Just then the watch below was summoned on deck to shorten sail.
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