Sentence examples for trimming half from inspiring English sources

In August, as Stanton was in the midst of trimming half of the Thark temple scene he'd so painstakingly reshot, he flew to London to film Sab Than (Dominic West) having a clarifying conversation about the Thern plot.

Decreased accuracy near the edge of the marker windows is avoided by using overlapping windows and trimming half of the overlap from each window prior to merging data in adjacent windows.

The goal is to trim off what needs to come off because trimming half of the split ends will not help you.

The bank trimmed half a percentage point off its benchmark interest rate "in reaction to the rapid appreciation of the Swiss franc," it said.

He was asked to trim half an hour off his three-hour series so that it could be shown at Cannes as a film by the festival's artistic director Thierry Frémaux, who in turn had been lobbied by Tom Luddy, who runs the Telluride Film Festival, and Bertrand Tavernier, the great French director and documentary maker.

As shown in Fig.  2c, we then trimmed half of the peeled ILM using a vitreous cutter, to facilitate the inversion of the ILM.

First, we peeled off the ILM in a circular fashion, leaving it attached at the edge of the MH, and then trimmed half of the peeled ILM with a vitreous cutter to create a single-layered ILM flap.

When you bring you asparagus home, you may need to trim half an inch or so from the ends of the stalks.

The war has clearly hit American business -- trimming perhaps half a percentage point off economic growth in the first half of this year, economists estimate.

As they did so, conventions toppled almost as fast as the banks they were trying to save.On October 8th six central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and, notably, the hawkish European Central Bank, took the unprecedented step of announcing co-ordinated cuts in lending rates, with most trimming by half a percentage point.

Gulliver, the clumber spaniel, was perched atop a large green Rubbermaid container that held, among other things, two flattening irons, one regular hair dryer, one high-powered hair dryer, three pairs of trimming scissors, half a dozen combs, a cache of Q-tips, toothbrushes, cans of hairspray and "a bottle of emergency shampoo," Schnepf said.