Sentence examples for slashing the number from inspiring English sources

The first response is to restructure hierarchy for example, by slashing the number of its layers.

Stuart was charitable enough to offer an instant solution - slashing the number of overseas players in Super League.

Slashing the number of affordable homes in crucial areas is a nonsensical decision, and we urge the government to reconsider this sell-off.

The plan announced this week by the opera's board calls for gradually slashing the number of performances by 25percentt over the next three years.

Straw's proposals included slashing the number of members from the current 745 to "not more than 400-450 and maybe less".

Slashing the number of MPs from 650 to 600 given our growing population is, at the outset, "daft", as Labour's Chris Bryant puts it.

This would mean the number of members paying the political levy in the five largest affiliated unions would fall from 3.352 million to 333,000, thereby slashing the numbers that can be affiliated to the party.

This is a government which has spent its time in office restructuring the Environment Agency and cutting staff levels by a third, taking a butcher's knife to local authority budgets, slashing the numbers of military personnel.

It slashed the number of coupons.

· Slash the number of exams pupils have to take.

National Savings & Investments has slashed the number of premium bond prizes, reducing people's chances of winning.