The time before a case came to trial was also reduced from three years to only one.

Selective breeding has reduced the time to market size from three to two years.

Another change made in 1955 was to reduce Senatorial terms from ten years to five.

His prison term was reduced from 15 to 10 years after the second appeal - but with an increase in fine.

On April 7 the sentence was reduced from three years to one year.

Officials said today that before the end of 1999, the application process could be reduced to six months or less, from two years.

The parliamentary term was reduced from five to three years.

The Constitution was recently changed to reduce the president's term from seven years to five.

One idea was that presidential terms be reduced from seven to five years.

Minimum age to vote was reduced from 21 to 18 years in 1995.