Sentence examples for whittled it down from inspiring English sources

At the National, Patrick Marber -- author/director of Closer -- has taken Turgenev's A Month in the Country and whittled it down, from its four-hour length to two-and-a-half; and from a month to three days.

At its peak, before fast-food competition whittled it down, Tad's had 28 locations, 8 in New York.

They have since whittled it down to 2.46 seconds.

Instead, I have whittled it down to the 10 suggestions below.

"There were six of us and they whittled it down during the day.

Slowly they whittled it down and they ended with 11 names – all with links with the Acourt gang.

To whittle it down to its simplest explanation, motion capture is high tech puppetry.

She whittles it down to about five, I think".

So I was whittling it down into a narrative".

And the BBC has been criticised for whittling it down into a mere six episodes.

Not that drawing up the list — or rather, whittling it down­ — was a wholly painful exercise.