Six years seemed an appropriate period, neither too short nor too long.

Maybe the stockholder base was too short term oriented a quarter century ago maybe the original 1.2 year (mean) average holding period was too short.

Meanwhile, Zeinobia feels the sentence was too short. She writes

One chromosome has the normal length and the other is too short.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

This approach too often sacrifices long term essential objectives to short term concerns.

In short the remedies far too little and too late are based on a misdiagnosis of the problem and flawed economics.

In normal times, any effort by a central bank to take short term interest rates too low for too long will boomerang.

Too many valid choices are ignored or skirted through the routine of short cuts.

In short, the banking sector in Europe might be too big to be saved.

Unfortunately, many of the solutions on offer are either too timid or demand too much of a global leadership that is in short supply.

Let me say first that, as also my colleague from Italy has underlined, the presidency is really exercised for too short and too ephemeral a period.

BRUSSELS What is wrong with Europe s banks? The short answer is that the sector is too large, has too little capital, and contains too many players that lack a viable long term business model.

These efforts should be maintained even after the conclusion of the presidencies, which as I have already said in the past are too short and too ephemeral.

Although they lived together in Hamburg for a short time, the city was too expensive for their budgets.

Yet international solidarity has still fallen well short of need, as many of you know all too well.

My time simply has been too limited to talk with 65 members in a very short time frame.

In sum, there are tradeoffs. Too much short term debt makes banks more prone to failure, while too much equity places little restraint on bankers capacity to destroy value.

But to view them as synonymous with the entirety of the arts community is, by far, too short sighted.

Of course, caution is appropriate in order to avoid claiming too much for the benefits of short run consolidation.

In short, Britain s was a political, not an economic, failure. And that history, unfortunately, is all too pertinent to America s fate.

Finally, today, too, comprehensive transformation is supposed to occur in a very short time, which 1989 taught us is eminently possible.

In short, Europe s leaders and German leaders above all must make the case that the alternative is too dire to contemplate.

These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.

The selection of the base period was crucial to the calculation of the scale of assessments, since too long or too short a base period would lead to distortions in the relevant data.

In short, we simply shouldn t read too much into the decline in real long term interest rates over the last 20 years.

And, while ten years is too short for a definitive assessment of such an ambitious policy, we have undoubtedly covered considerable ground.

They are like those who , a short time before , suffered the consequences of their deeds . They , too , will suffer a painful torment .

They are like those who , a short time before , suffered the consequences of their deeds . They , too , will suffer a painful torment .

In short, Europe s leaders and German leaders above all must make the case that the alternative is too dire to contemplate. Because it is.

In short, the links between education and reduced fertility, faster economic development, and lower environmental degradation are too powerful and obvious to be ignored.

Yet the current cut emissions now before it is too late mindset neglects the fact that the world has no sensible short term solutions.

Stewart originally wanted to become a professional baseball player, but suffered from a hand disease and was also too short to play professional baseball.

I have been advocating that the term of the CD presidency is too short to ensure that the Conference on Disarmament is effectively managed.

There were also, according to Putin s regime, too many public institutions performing too many activities with insufficient oversight, so they were made smaller and given specific tasks from a short centralized list of priorities. Multiple higher courts were too difficult to maintain, so a single court replaced them.

First, management pay depends too much on short term share price performance, probably owing to the excessive influence of investment banks on commercial banks policies.

Of course, just as it was inappropriate to extrapolate from the previous decade of strong growth, one should not read too much into short term fluctuations.

It is too early to tell whether this blocking pattern is a manifestation of weather variability, a short term climate variation, or the result of climate change.

Five years may be too short a period for historians to judge the full significance of the event, but it does offer an opportunity to take stock.

Hence the reliability test in its current form was too demanding for business purposes and fell short of what was needed in other cases for public protection.

What's good? Short, short bullet points.

We think we understand it. Yet it is not good enough on our current trajectory, short term prosperity is coming at the cost of too many future crises.

However, we have in the past too often fallen short of our own pledges, which have been made but not fully delivered on, or scaled down over time.

Other countries cannot simply copy these achievements but they can still learn the main lesson that is too often forgotten in a world of stimulus, bubbles, and short term thinking.

Tom is short, but not as short as Mary.