Sentence examples for a cutback of about from inspiring English sources

In April the company announced plans to make 2,000 employees redundant, a cutback of about 14% of staff, in an effort to save $375m £233mm) a year.

That's a cutback of 32 percent.

The state enacted legislation last year requiring a cutback of 173 million tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, and officials had counted on the cutbacks in vehicle emissions for 18percentt, or about 31 million tons, of the total.

Pritchard was looking at an "uncertain 2009″ and a cutback of planned clinical trials.

Its chairman, Terry Spence, said: "Policing cannot shoulder a cutback of this magnitude.

Financial constraints force a cutback of our commitments to police the world.

The disability program is facing a fiscal crisis that could force a cutback in disability payments of about 20% starting next year; Paul and other Republicans have signaled that they won't accept the customary remedy for similar situations, which involves reallocating some payroll tax revenue from the old-age fund to cover disability's near-term shortfall.

The cutbacks follow the elimination of about 200 jobs earlier in the year; the combined 700 cuts are expected to save Ashland an estimated $100 million annually.

Afghanistan was once again, the U.N. said, producing three-quarters of the world's illicit opium, with no evidence of a cutback in sight, even though there has been a steady stream of reports from Washington about drug interdictions.

And there was at least one sign of a cutback.

The Oakland Police Department now has about 630 officers after layoffs, attrition and budget cutbacks — a loss of about 150 officers since mid-2009 — a number that police officials say has affected the response times and services for the city's 400,000 residents.