Sentence examples for slashes about from inspiring English sources

This revision slashes about £50m of TV ad spend from its previous UK forecast for 2012.

Additional deformations include random slashes about the head and shoulders, as if by a very peevish artist suddenly inspired by Tàpies or Fontana.

Using a sharp knife held at an angle, make three slashes about 1 to 1 ½ inches apart in the flesh of each side of the fish, almost to the bone.

The officers approached the suspect, who was wanted in a Memorial Day weekend slashing, about 8 p.m. in front of an apartment building at 99 Terrace Avenue to arrest him, said Lt. Michael McGowan.

"The house was something to focus on-slash-obsess about," she said.

In the UK, it has slashed about 600 positions as part of a programme of 1,500 planned job losses.

And while they called for quickly slashing about $100 billion in "nonsecurity" discretionary spending, they did not specify how those cuts would be carried out.

Wonga is slashing about a third of its workforce to cut costs as it responds to a wider clampdown on unfair practices in the payday lending market.

But one board official said the chancellor might slash about $100 million from the program's $176 million budget as part of an overall belt tightening.

Merck had about 100,000 employees at the end of the year, and plans to slash about 2,500 vacant positions as part of the initial phase of the cost cuts.

The next day — unless Congress agrees on a major deficit-reduction plan — a fiscal discipline known as sequestration will slash about $100 billion a year from federal spending, divided between defense and nondefense.