41.   Now some steps are performed simultaneously instead of consecutively, surgical procedures are standardized and patients spend a shorter time with an uncomfortable breathing tube down their throats.

42.   Rain in Phoenix meant some U.S. retirees stayed a shorter time, Hogan said.

43.   She is the one for whom a shorter time passed.

44.   So, Tang and his laboratory are experimenting with shorter processing times by using radio frequencies to heat the food, and developing a wider variety of foods.

45.   Still, on a shorter time scale, the shifting light and wind can make him a bit frenetic.

46.   Such a product could give the company much needed cash in a shorter time period than it was taking to develop the politicized AIDS vaccine.

47.   The Asia slowdown could last a shorter time than expected as the International Monetary Fund is likely to fund economic restructuring in Thailand and Korea in coming months.

48.   The Buckhead bar district has had three murders during that same time period, though those in Buckhead were committed over a much shorter time span.

49.   The MemoryLens can be folded and inserted with a much smaller incision, and the surgery requires a shorter time to heal than rigid implants, company officials said.

50.   The poison, Johannes says, enables fishermen to take more fish in a shorter time and also to select individual fish.