Sentence examples for been slashed by a from inspiring English sources
Coca cultivation has been slashed by a quarter in the past five years, and seizures of cocaine have almost doubled.
Her budget, one of the smallest in Whitehall, has already been slashed by a quarter since 2010; albeit that the shortfall has been mitigated by increased lottery funding.
A woman on the sixth floor had been slashed by a ceiling fan that fell on her in the chaos, said Tariq Qader, 35, who said he rescued her.
Funding for councils to deal with flooding has been slashed by a third by ministers, prompting community groups and Labour to say the government is going backwards on managing flood risk.
During the current fiscal year, our development budget has been slashed by a third, as we have had to divert funds to shore up our security-related expenditure on the western and eastern frontiers.
However, in the four years the coalition has been in power, youth services have been slashed by a third, child benefit has been frozen and a combination of welfare changes and low wages mean that child poverty is once again rising, so its promised abolition by 2020 is unlikely.
After a particularly acrimonious row between the two, Carritt's expensive new covert coat, hung on a hook, was found to have been slashed by an unknown hand.
NEW YORK, 4 March 2005 - The number of children dying from measles around the world has been slashed by an estimated 39 percent since 1999.
At the same time, polio eradication efforts are further intensifying in Nigeria, the only endemic country in Africa; over the past 12 months, the number of new cases in the country has been slashed by an impressive 95 per cent in 2010 compared to 2009.
The latter contains the infamous scene of an eye being slashed by a razor.
