6 sentences with 'shorter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shorter and other words derived from it.
• « Finally, the Carolingian dynasty lasted an even shorter period than the Merovingian. The problem, again, was the law of Frankish succession. »
• « That conflict was not really a war, but consisted of a series of battles and shorter wars between the crowns of England and France interrupted by (sometimes quite long) periods of peace. »
• « After the Napoleonic Wars, the great powers of Europe deliberately worked out a new political settlement whose purpose was, in part, to keep the peace between them. That peace broke down occasionally from 1853 onwards, but subsequent wars were shorter, less bloody and less frequent than those of any previous century. »
• « In the minds of the bourgeoisie, as workers' movements and socialist parties grew, the demands of the working class for shorter working hours spoke not of their exhaustion and exploitation, but of their laziness and lack of work ethic. »
• « It should also be noted that not everything in Soviet society was, in reality, a failure. After the "thaw" in the early 1950s, hardly anyone was executed for simply disagreeing with the state, and prison sentences were much shorter. »