The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

There are also two Japanese swords, one long and one short, that were made in the fourteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

In one boxcar, a short man with long, curly brown hair is playing a guitar and singing.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Whatever he is called, he is still the same short,fat, jolly old man with a long beard, wearing a red suit with white fur.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

There are four kinds of echidnas: three species are long-nosed, while another has a short nose.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

The results suggested that people do act differently if they think they are working with a group for a short period of time instead of a long period.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

It had rows of long teeth and ten very short legs.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Yet that short war led to long-term changes for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Some lines are short. Some are long.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Scheduling decisions made well before the tournament have forced some teams to travel long distances and play on short rest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Short-range test launches are not formally prohibited under United Nations sanctions against the North, which forbid medium and long-range ballistic activities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The $10-billion U.S.missile defense program involves a combination of systems designed to detect and intercept missiles coming from short,medium and long distances.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26