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From: "Guy Barry" <guy.ba...@blueyonder.co.uk>
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"GG" <not_here@no_where.com> wrote in message
news:jvhhi6$ore$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> "For how long, no one knows, with food and everything in ever shorter
> supply."
>
> Is "ever shorter" a good equivalent for "increasingly shorter," in case
> a less pretentious/sophisticated sentence is sought?

I would say that "ever shorter" is slightly more old-fashioned, but it's
still understood, especially in set phrases like "ever decreasing circles",
or "an ever closer union" (which appears somewhere in the European Union
treaties, I think).

In everyday usage I'd probably say "shorter and shorter".

--
Guy Barry