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Getting shorten vs Getting short

The correct phrase is 'getting short'. 'Getting short' is the correct form to use when describing something becoming shorter in length. 'Getting shorten' is not a correct construction in English.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 665 views

Getting shorten

'Getting shorten' is not a correct construction in English.

The correct phrase to use when describing something becoming shorter in length is 'getting short'.
  • I had prepared a longer version of my speech but, as time is getting on, I will shorten it as much as possible.
  • The proposal to shorten Strasbourg sessions to four days would have meant that MEPs could have been back in their constituencies for longer periods meeting groups, individuals and organisations and getting across the message about what we do here in Strasbourg and Brussels.
  • I knew the odds of him getting hit by a car or contracting an airborne disease could shorten his life by 42.556%.

Getting short

'Getting short' is the correct form to use when describing something becoming shorter in length.

You can use 'getting short' to describe the process of something becoming shorter in length.
  • As the deadline approached, Serrat would check in more often, reminding us that our time was getting short.
  • Time's getting short.
  • I was really getting short on time.
  • Time is getting short and we've got a graduate.
  • Time is getting short, but I have a plan.
  • Mr President, time is now getting short for completion of the talks on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
  • I need two freight cars to take the cattle to the slaughterhouse, we are getting short on fodder so I'll have to sell a few heifers.
  • Guess they're getting short of men!
  • Guess they're getting short of men!
  • We were getting short on money, and my mother knew that... unless she found herself a husband fast... she'd have to swallow her pride and head back to New York, which woulïve been fine with me.
  • Maybe destiny will figure out We're getting short on water And find us a planet with nice fresh water
  • Money started getting short...
  • Time is getting short, Brian.
  • And I was getting short!
  • We're getting short on the hallway.
  • Time's getting short.
  • Time is getting short.
  • HR's getting short on funds since we took down Elias, so he's chasing down street money with a baseball bat.
  • Time is getting short and if we consider that EUROCODES gave way to CEN in 1989, progress in this area has not exactly been setting the heather on fire.
  • I'm cutting my hair, it's getting short and long, because every time I saw Kofi Annan, I was so worried that he thought I was a hippie that I cut it, and that was kind of what was going on.

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