Sentence examples for been chopped by from inspiring English sources

When the dust cleared, the program's financing had been chopped by 40 percent.

A program to maintain trees downtown and prevent Dutch elm disease has been chopped by $63,390.

But it has been a strange few weeks in which the Yankees' once sizable lead in the American League East had been chopped by more than half.

With the Jan . 1reductions, personal income tax rates for provincial taxes -- which constitute a much larger share of overall taxes for Canadians than state taxes do for Americans -- will have been chopped by an average of 25percentturninging British Columbia from one of Canada's most heavily taxed provinces to one with some of the lowest tax rates.

Now that US shale gas resources have been chopped by 36percentt, are we understating the potential of shale gas?

The problem is, just like individual workers' 401(k) balances, companies' defined-pension plans kitties have been chopped by the stock market plunge.

"The meat is chopped by the same family in Hunts Point that I've been buying chopped meat from for almost 27 years," he said.

Basil is chopped by hand, because the buffalo chopper bruises the leaves.

In Britain, spending on welfare, the military and education could be chopped by a quarter.

The price of a prix fixe restaurant meal was chopped by a third.

And the vegetables look best when they're chopped by hand, not in a food processor.