Sentences with phrase «before whittling»

Eventually, he turned it into a 500 - page book, before whittling it down to a 99 - page screenplay.

The best, funniest April Fools Day 2017 pranks on the web — check out everything from fake foods to Google's pretend apps Researchers scoured the web and examined more than 1,000 jokes (including ones from Tommy Cooper, pictured) before whittling them down to a final 50 on

There are three important big - picture questions that we should grapple before we whittle down to those minutiae.

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The Conservatives came to office in 2006 with a $ 13 - billion surplus but had whittled that down to a structural deficit even before the global recession struck in late 2008, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.

This could mean that the gap in the price of oil between two markets may rise to 0.4 percent rather than 0.3 percent before arbitragers whittle it down again.

I'd spent the week before reworking all my usual talks for a younger audience, whittling them down to their essence, working in more stories and updating my illustrations, taking out any references to menstruation.

They freeze well, but once thawed I inevitably wind up using them as many ways as possible before wrapping and returning the whittled - down stack to the freezer.

With some races touching on 40 entries for a race the field had to be whittled down before any of the main sessions began, and that was the purpose of pre-qualifying.

In their season together before Borges moved to UCLA, they built around Ricky Whittle, who carried 260 times and caught 55 passes.

The opening rounds run from now until 26 March, with the quarter - and semi-finals whittling the competition down further before the final on 26 May at the British World RX event at Silverstone.

There were some changes in that time, such as when there was an extra pre-qualifying session to whittle down the field before the main session, but it was largely the same: two sessions, one on Friday, one on Saturday, low fuel, sticky tyres, fastest driver on pole.

In the meantime, we've put together a collection of pretty things from Folksy designers and makers who will be at Renegade this weekend, so you can whittle them down into a wishlist before you go — or if you can't make it to Renegade this time, you can find them Folksy!

An administration source said Cuomo's plan was to whittle away more controversial provisions and simply act on the schools legislation before mayoral control expires at week's end.

Now, David Malpass is now touting his credentials for US Senate less than a week before GOP voters whittle down the field of three and pick their nominee.

Announced last week by NASA, the three missions — whittled down from nine proposals — will receive $ 2 million each to develop a more detailed concept over the coming 9 months, before NASA selects one in 2019 to be the next mid-sized Explorer.

Fair enough, but how do you tell how high a mountain used to be, before wind and rain whittled it down?

You spend months pumping heavy iron to build size and shape, and then in the month before your contest you switch to «finishing» movements and whittle away your body to nothing.

It's shaped with the signature wrap - style front, which leads into a waist - whittling elasticated belt remove it for a less - cinched look before falling into retro - inspired wide legs that hit at the ankle.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I've really whittled down what I carry for myself after having kids.

Right before Christmas, from last year's 76 submissions, the Academy released its shortlist of nine, which it later whittled down to the usual field of five nominees.

In 2012, it seemed that before the Thanksgiving leftovers had been finished, the list of the year's «movies that mattered» had already been whittled down to ten or twelve, thus defining the year in cinema and «what it all meant.»

Their job is to whittle down several sets of student expectations into the best possible academic standards — all before next week.

While the touch screen may not be quite as responsive as that of the iPhone (due to the slightly laggy nature of E Ink), it's more responsive than it was, and, as we've said before, this type of interface is ideal for e-readers because it allows the designers to cut down on buttons and whittle the device down to just slightly bigger than the screen itself.

While the touch screen may not be quite as responsive as that of the iPhone (due to the slightly laggy nature of e-ink), as we've said before, this type of interface is ideal for e-readers because it allows the designers to cut down on buttons and whittle the device down to just slightly bigger than the screen itself.

And because Phil graduated from chiropractic school in 2011, a year before Candace, he was also able to whittle down his student debt from $ 30,000 to $ 15,000.

Oil field worker wants to retire at 60, but before he does that, he needs to whittle down his credit cards and take a hard look at his real estate...

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It also starts with 600 HP, giving it a fair bit of health for opponents to whittle away before it's defeated.

Later, there are the grand towering Elder Dragons that'll knock you this way and that as you whittle away at their generous pools of health on hunts that sap up the best part of an hour, all before you pick yourself up from the forest floor, dust yourself off and, like a kid stepping off a rollercoaster, say to yourself let's do that again.

What makes this worse is that if all players die before the fight is over, everything resets and you have to whittle it's life down again.

The idea for this year's show started as a museum - worthy retrospective that Hammons whittled down to 33 works, which include a series of never - before - seen photographs.