Sentence examples for slashed the amount of from inspiring English sources

Federal and state agencies have slashed the amount of money they send to towns.

The government has slashed the amount of tax-free income that high earners can put into a pension by 80%.

As an example, army engineers have slashed the amount of chromium, cadmium and other hazardous materials used in building Stryker combat tanks, which in turn reduces the health risk to soldiers.

Since signing the agreement, she said, New Jersey has increased the number of investigators who monitor discrimination complaints to seven from four, and slashed the amount of time it took to investigate a case to fewer than 90 days from over a year.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — As escalating food and shipping costs have slashed the amount of food the United States can buy to feed the world's hungry, aid agencies and charitable groups are deeply divided over how best to use what is available.

Lenders slashed the amount of credit they were prepared to make available late last year, and they intend restricting it again in the first quarter of 2008.The housing market is already wilting, as banks tighten the terms on which they make mortgage loans and would-be buyers take fright at the possibility of instant losses on their purchases.

The council is also in the process of slashing the amount of money it spends on its own administration from 11% of its total budget to 3.5%.

It is nothing short of lunacy to slash the amount of money available for new school places to lavish on free schools.

To save a similar amount over the past five years, the NHS was forced to hold back pay, and slash the amount of money hospitals are paid to deliver services.

The families are aiming to slash the amount of food they throw away by a quarter and cut their grocery bills by 15%.

Evgeny Lebedev's local TV station London Live has applied to media regulator Ofcom to slash the amount of local programming it produces just four months after launch.