Sentence examples for materials down to from inspiring English sources

It took 18 months of workshops and rewrites for the playwright, Nicholas Wright, to whittle the 1,300 pages of "His Dark Materials" down to a manageable script.

Next door Satoru Eguchi has recreated his Brooklyn studio, in paper, clay and other art materials, down to a whitewashed wooden MacBook and a cardboard air-conditioner mounted in the acetate window.

Sometimes he narrowed his materials down to pen and masking tape on the wall, as in the initially confusing "Continuous/Dis/Continuous" (1972), a single ribbon of tape applied to a long wall at about eye level.

Airport security inspected all building materials, down to the Plexiglas and drywall screws.

Airport security inspected all building materials, down to the Plexiglass and drywall screws.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), although a relatively newly developed technique, has now become a powerful technology for characterization of the surface of materials down to the atomic scale.

One of the most difficult things, says Halliday, was cutting the material down to a manageable size.

The lively illustrations, with spots of humor, help bring the more technical material down to child's-eye level.

Then he would take those jokes to the Improv, "where the more basic and average character of the audience would cut the new material down to about three jokes".

His unnecessary topic sentence of a monologue gives you a worrisome hint that the playwright, Richard F. Stockton, doesn't entirely know how to boil this wealth of material down to a play.

The delay was caused by crippling depression while tackling the novel's thorny subject matter, as well as wrestling 7,000 pages of draft material down to just over 200.