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Free sign upThe phrase "attempt to slash the number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to reduce a quantity or amount of something, often in a context related to budgets, resources, or statistics.
Example: "The government plans to attempt to slash the number of unnecessary regulations to promote business growth."
Alternatives: "try to reduce the number of" or "make an effort to cut down on".
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The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was right to respond to Russia's attempt to slash the number of election monitors that it would admit, from over 400 in 2003 to only 70 this time, by refusing to send any observers at all.
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The trick, of course, will be to slash the number of lazy bureaucrats.
Marks & Spencer is to slash the number of clothing lines it will sell next year.
Mosquito-control experts around the world are now contemplating strategies to slash the number of new infections.
The intention is to slash the number of people walking the trail to one-and-a-half million.
He's concerned that NIA will also eventually have to slash the number of aged animals it furnishes.
And it plans to slash the number of investment advisors by more than 75%.
In Michigan in the US for instance a firm's attempting to slash the cost of carbon fibre for it to be used in wind turbine blades.
The plan would slash the number of newsrooms to two, saving an estimated €70m ($77m).
· Slash the number of exams pupils have to take.
First, it will slash the number of its brands from eight to three maybe not all at once, but eventually.
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