The professor stressed the new medicine would _______ shorten the treatment period from the current  days to a minimum of four days.

----Mr. Johnson, would you have some more ice-cream?----No, thanks. It’s very good, but I have to _____ my weight, you know.

Women’s fashions are       changing: One season they may favor pant-suits, but the next season they may prefer miniskirts.

 I was crazy because it _____me two hours to get_____ in the restaurant the other day.

All of them felt it necessary that they______ __the meeting.