Sentence examples for reducing the figure from inspiring English sources

Or of agreeing to a particular budget for a film, then reducing the figure shortly before production.

His playful Cubist-inflected domestic scenes show his interest in reducing the figure to bold, simplified forms and colors embedded in patterned interiors.

"We're going to try and stay on target and remain committed to our cause," he added, reducing the figure of 400,000 in the United States who "lose their lives to tobacco every year".

The report also restated the subscriber numbers that cable companies use to negotiate programming costs, reducing the figure by 335,253 to 5,475,000.

He succeeded in evolving a naturalistic style while preserving the artificiality of the occasion, organizing a composition as if it were a stage setting and reducing the figures to a tiny scale, each one indicated by the fewest possible strokes.

Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

We have tried to find a balance between reducing the figures and maintaining essential data.

These stand at £57bn and the plan is to reduce the figure to £20bn in 2017.

Just as importantly, perhaps, it reduces the figure of "official" casualties.

Lloyds said it expected to reduce the figure to £90 billion by the end of year.

Before the last election, David Cameron pledged to reduce the figure to "tens of thousands".