1.   Not surprisingly, doctors have been looking for ways to shorten the length of stay for the operation.

2.   This opens the weave, shortens the length and opens up the diameter of the braid.

3.   And companies have also shortened the length of their summer internship programs, which are an important way to recruit future employees, business school career advisers say.

4.   As announced in June, the bank shortened the length of repurchase agreements to one week from two weeks previously.

5.   Burke said that one of the intentions of the new rules was to shorten the length of the games.

6.   He also wished that Congress would shorten the length of time drug patents last.

7.   In clinical trials, Picovir shortened the length of the cold to roughly six days from seven.

8.   It could lead to drugs that dramatically shorten the length of time it now takes to treat TB.

9.   Officials acknowledged that much of the savings was due to shortening the length of the deals instead of lowering the prices consumers will pay.