Surgery patients now spend much less time in the hospital.动手术的病人现在住院时间短多了。What perturbs me is that magazine articles are so much shorter nowadays.令我不安的是现在的杂志文章都短多了。Life expectancy was much lower then than it is now.那时候人类的预期寿命比现在短多了。Her hair is much shorter than it used to be.她的头发比过去短多了。