Sentence examples for before reducing it to from inspiring English sources

Place the pie in the heated oven at 180C/gas mark 4 for half an hour, before reducing it to 140C/gas mark 1 for a further 20 minutes.

He instead settled into his studies, working for up to 16 hours a day during his first two years at Lincoln's Inn before reducing it to eight hours due to health concerns.

The budget deficit had soared to $72 million in 2002 before he reduced it to $66 million in August.

Her decision to play the principal and not the wife is a turning point for the history of women in American politics, and yet Chafe — like many before him — reduces it to payback for Bill's affairs.

But he now plans to maintain the current force of 9,800 troops in the country throughout most of 2016 before reducing it by less than half in 2017.

Unlike in Rwanda, where more than 25,000 tourists go gorilla trekking annually, political instability kept the number of such visitors to neighboring Congo in the 500-1,000 range for the five years before 2012, when war reduced it to zero.

Even before the current crisis reduced it to bankruptcy, Damascus had neither the bureaucratic freedom nor the finance needed to deal with such recent threats to its heritage as Iran buying up property round the Sayyida Ruqiyya shrine to bulldoze for busloads of pilgrims.

Unless they have an antique hairpin collection, being given a hairpin from your great-aunt who died before they were born reduces it to just being something old.

The project's estimated cost started out at $72 million (in today's dollars) and rose to $160 million this spring before Mr. Libeskind found ways to reduce it to $110 million to improve its financing prospects.

The whole-cell series resistance was ∼20 MΩ before compensation by 50% to reduce it to ∼10 MΩ.

Where DC could only be transmitted for a couple of miles before the resistance of the lines reduced it to nothing, AC can be transmitted at high voltages for many times that distance.