A prepared bulb has been given a short cold treatment by the grower, but it is never enough.

Fennel is given shorter treatment than I would have preferred.

You must expect short treatment from Fawkes; he keeps people waiting on my doorstep.

People are more likely to complete a shorter treatment.

The short treatment sufficed to keep the guard in good humour till they reached the interrogation room.

After a severe asthma attack, you may need a short treatment using corticosteroids by mouth to bring your symptoms under control.

And when down the road something else is troubling you, you come back for another short treatment.

It's about time these activists were given some short, sharp, shock treatment.

During the relatively short treatment, the therapist helped the patient to begin discussing her feelings with her family.

The movement toward shorter treatment is a swing of a pendulum, following a 10-year trend the other way.