Similarly, the strongest reasons for stopping smoking are usually the short-term benefits (for example, feeling healthier and more attractive).

The short term contract employees were dismissed without notice.

A glance at Chart 2 will reveal that some of these trade cycles are very short-lived.

The management tended to be too concerned about short-term improvement of the bottom line to have any long-term design for the future.

As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.

Some people find it easier to grasp the short-term effects of smoking.

Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.

At first they think they won't come to harm, although no smoker escapes at least the short-term effects.

Whatever language you study, it takes time.