Sentence examples for has been pruning from inspiring English sources

Monday and already Sylvia McLaughlin has been pruning and weeding her garden.

At the same time, Yahoo has been pruning less profitable units and laying off employees to reduce expenses.

Wachovia, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., has more than 700 branches in five states and has been pruning its branch network after buying Jefferson Bankshares and Central Fidelity Banks in 1998.

The best-known of these is his "Ash Dome," a ring of 22 ash trees that he has been pruning and training since 1977 to create a lofty arboreal cupola.

(Merrill Lynch, the nation's largest brokerage house, was the first big firm to announce cuts linked primarily to the world's troubled financial markets; there has been pruning at smaller firms since. More cuts in the industry are expected). But if his loss is not humiliating, is it humbling?

Since then, director Glenn Lowry Glenn Lowry has been pruning the collection regularly.

As Fig. 3b shows, with (f_1) and (f_2) existed, the shaded area has been pruned by (f_1) and (f_2) jointly and (v_2) is the vertex described in pruning rule 1.

Titles and forms continue to be mutually enhancing, but the conceptual framework has been pruned back.

The aim is to leave a shrub that does not look as if it has been pruned.

Today, however, it has been pruned back to just 5% (though it has remained a constant presence on 70% of handbags).

The burgeoning afro he sports in the film has been pruned back; his 19th-century velvet threads are today replaced by a rugby shirt and windcheater.