| shortest outing | 2.30 | It was his shortest outing of the season. | ||
| shortest time | 2.11 | This must be done in the shortest possible time. | ||
| shortest route | 1.97 | Friday is his shortest route of the week. | ||
| shortest distance | 1.45 | And it is the shortest distance to New Zealand. | ||
| shortest start | 0.99 | Lima got only two outs in the shortest start of his career. | ||
| shortest day | 0.59 | The shortest day of the year means the longest night. | ||
| shortest jump | 0.39 | At the last pre-Olympic World Cup event, last week in Sapporo, Harada landed the shortest jump of the day. | ||
| shortest month | 0.39 | February, the shortest month, is long on tedium. | ||
| shortest path | 0.39 | As a by-product it also finds the shortest paths from s to all other vertices in the graph. | ||
| shortest way | 0.39 | The shortest way for Israeli planes to Iraq is to fly over Jordan. | ||
| shortest amount | 0.33 | Competitors must make shots from eight designated spots on the floor in the shortest amount of time. | ||
| shortest maturity | 0.33 | On the shortest maturities, yields were unchanged. | ||
| shortest speech | 0.33 | What Academy Award winner gave the shortest speech? | ||
| shortest drive | 0.26 | Bob Estes hit the shortest drive in PGA Tour history. | ||
| shortest hour | 0.26 | The shortest working hours are in Europe. | ||
| shortest stay | 0.26 | Billie Austin Bryant of Washington had the shortest stay on the list. | ||
| shortest stint | 0.26 | It was his shortest stint as a member of the Diamondbacks. | ||
| shortest supply | 0.26 | The commodity in shortest supply, however, is experience. | ||
| shortest term | 0.26 | Which chief executive had the shortest term of office? |