Sentence examples for trim the cost from inspiring English sources
A new, more compact restaurant model based on a European design has helped McDonald's in America trim the cost of a new outlet from $1.6m to $1m.
Twin Creeks, for instance, is part of a small clutch of manufacturers that hopes to trim the cost of solar by reducing the thickness of solar cells by two-thirds or more.
Ben Bajarin, a technology analyst for Creative Strategies, a consulting firm, said it was possible that China Mobile could trim the cost of the iPhone 5C and use the device to lure customers into paying for more expensive smartphone plans.
Mr Rauh and Mr Novy-Marx estimate that raising the retirement age by a year would trim the cost by 2-4%; a cut of a percentage point in inflation-linking would slash it by 9-11%.
Richard M. Larrabee, the director of the agency's port commerce department, said that by consolidating earlier projects under way to achieve 45-foot depths with projects made possible by new Congressional authorizations for the 50-foot channel, the agency could not only cut the time required, but also trim the cost to $2.3 billion.
The Senate bill came together only after a bipartisan group of centrist senators, led by Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, reached a deal to trim the cost of the package to $838 billion from more than $920 billion.
A physician, for example, may try new approaches to trim the costs of providing care, but the results usually benefit insurers more than doctors.
Little things matter, such as the way that GM has trimmed the cost of creating tools and dies by about two-thirds.
After, say, 40 years of work, they would pay no further contributions to Social Security and Medicare through payroll taxes, nor would companies make contributions, thus trimming the cost of employing older workers.
Spending restraint has played a part, but much of the change has also been due to strong growth which has automatically boosted tax revenues and trimmed the cost of unemployment benefits.
Several Web sites are offering services aimed at trimming the cost of a fill-up -- and just in time, too, since motorists face the prospect of entering the peak summer travel season with prices 35 cents a gallon higher than they were a year ago.
