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(The contestants had been winnowed from several hundred "screen tests" — videotaped comments that visitors had made in the "Turner Prize Video Booth" at the Tate).

The recipients were winnowed from several hundred possibilities to the final 29, including 10 in California and 4 more elsewhere in the West.

The four students who presented arguments on Thursday had been winnowed from a field of 55.

The designs for the official buttons had been winnowed from 167 suggestions.

Only that way will good be winnowed from bad.

The eight new winners were winnowed from a pool of 516 applicants.

BLUNT criticism is an essential part of science, for it is how bad ideas are winnowed from good ones.

The seven slender volumes that make up "African Metropolitan Architecture" (Rizzoli, $100) were winnowed from about 35,000 photos, which are bluntly documentary in style.

Under the prevailing arid conditions, fine dust is winnowed from the surface sediments and can be carried high into the air in dust storms.

The final list was winnowed from some 400 questions submitted by members of each participating organization.

The 47 finalists were winnowed from more than 500 applicants nominated by sponsoring institutions.