They wanted to work shorter hours.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

But a shorter working week would enable us to redistribute hours from the overworked to the under worked.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

For this scheme to work, the government must provide wage subsidies to compensate for lost pay due to the shorter hours.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

I also do a couple of ad-hoc jobs which are much shorter projects.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the work day or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting at physical resources required for the initial task are t

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Mothers who slept in the same room as their infants, whether in the same bed or just the same room, had poorer sleep than mothers whose babies slept elsewhere in the house: They woke up more frequently, were awake approximately 20 minutes longer per night

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued him He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the farmer.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Indeed official figures suggest the country has shrunk by 5% since 1993 and people in Russia live a shorter life now than those in 1961.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.

2009年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

A more direct finding is that people who scored high for negative emotions like anxiety looked at others for shorter periods of time and reported more comfortable feelings when others did not look directly at them.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ