Sentence examples for a skeleton staff from inspiring English sources

But more modern papacies have streamlined the retinue to a skeleton staff.

The Africom team was pulled out in May as the embassy shrank to a skeleton staff.

So banks chose to keep a skeleton staff in the office instead.

When we were working there, they had a skeleton staff of two, which is not normal".

"He just said, 'We have a sort of a skeleton staff.' " Garner said he understood.

A skeleton staff answered the phones, following a hypnotically consistent script.

Although a skeleton staff will remain in London, the magazine will cease publication.

Operating with just a skeleton staff, even some of its most prestigious exhibits were off limits.

USAID already had plans to close its monumental offices in La Paz and move a skeleton staff into the embassy.

Dr Mann said the NHS was using a "skeleton staff" in emergency departments "most of the time".

Mr. Welch and G.E.'s lead negotiators left Brussels today, leaving behind a skeleton staff of lawyers.