Geoffrey Chaucer essentially quoted Hippocrates' famous "Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile," applying it to the art of love in The Parliament of Fowls. The opening lines are: The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly--by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep. http://www.umm.Maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/translation/pf/pf.pdf
It has a short A (ah) sound, as in craft and grab.
Crack has a short vowel sound, represented by the 'a' letter, as in the word "cat."
Rapid life history organisms have small body size, mature rapidly, reproduce early, and have short life span. Short life history organisms reproduce and mature slowly, and are long lived.
Life Is Short Opera Is Long - 2011 was released on: USA: 19 May 2011 (internet)
Even optimists are realistic-it's short for everybody.
Life-long weight management is a far better goal than short term dieting. This is because in order to truly manage your weight you must change your lifestyle. This is a life-long thing. Dieting is for the short term and will not help you manage your weight for the rest of your life.
Eleven (11) months is how long Diego has been a vampire when "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" begins.How long Diego has been a vampire is one of the first three facts that we learn about him. Another fact is that he is the vampire most trusted by Riley, co-leader with Victoria of the Seattle vampires. Still another fact is that he has thick dark hair.
Vita est brevis(Life is short)et(and)mors est dui.(Death is Long.)Vita est brevis et mors est dui.(Life is short and death is long.)(Longus is the Latin word for "Long" in Length, but I chose "Dui" which means, "for a long time.")
For almost three (3) months Bree has been a vampire when "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" begins.How long she has been a vampire is one of the first facts that we learn about Bree. Bree is not forthcoming, because she quickly learns that vampires can be their own worst enemies. Additionally, the longer one is a vampire, the more and more details one forgets about life as a human.
Short term liabilities have a 'life span' of 12 months or less. Long term liabilities have a 'life span' of greater than 12 months.
it can take as short as 5 min. depends how much you practice it...
Octopus' live about 3-5 years, so you can decide if it lives a long life or a short one. : )