Sentences with phrase «slowly whittled»

The painting was originally 7 panels and I slowly whittled it down.

Then we slowly whittled the list down to something more manageable to bunktest.

«We took information from the human world and combined that with our knowledge of dogs and cats and slowly whittled away until we got something that was safe for them and that worked,» she explained.

In 2008, Rob Shavell, Eugene Kuznetsov, and Andrew Sudbury saw privacy being slowly whittled away by the Internet.

The field of 68 has been slowly whittled down and now only the Villanova Wildcats and Michigan Wolverines remain.

As the underlying economy and baseline earnings level grew, the market slowly whittled its P / E back to levels associated with typical secular bull ends and secular bear starts.

This wouldn't be so bad if they had earned the right to beat you, but when you spend a lot of time slowly whittling them down through some clever strategizing, it feels undeserved to keep getting knocked out just for taking your time and being careful.

This slowly whittles down the door's strength until you smash it, where you can conquer what sits on the other side of it in order to move on to the next stage.

I could talk about how boss fights devolve into a handful of players circling the map while taking turns to stop and fire a few shots at the boss to slowly whittle away their health.

There's a counter that slowly whittles away at the total amount of experience you can get back so speed is of the essence!

Unfortunately, overheating issues are slowly whittling down their numbers.

You'll have to slowly whittle down hundreds of zombies using a variety of different guns, taking on some rather unusual creatures — including a zombie T - Rex.

Like so many «pesky» warming - peaks of the past that defy CO2 warming theory, USHCN's algorithm is slowly whittling away at original temperature data that otherwise would reveal a more cyclical nature to climate change.

Not exact matches

Some manage to whittle down their outstanding balances slowly over time and can repay the debt in full on their own.

Some manage to whittle down their outstanding balances slowly over time -LSB-...]

We pay $ 2500 each month in loans plus we add about 1/3 of any bonus money towards the loans, and have slowly started the whittle them down over the last 2 years.

The repairs of existing schools haven't moved much quicker, with a list of hundreds of emergent projects slowly being whittled away.

As NCLB slowly dies from a combination of Congressional inattention, regulatory whittling, and the sheer weight of public rejection, it's worth asking why so much of the optimism surrounding the law proved unfounded, and what those who still believe in federal intervention on behalf of disadvantaged students should do next.

It's not too challenging, and you can't catch it here so there's no need to worry about whittling it down slowly.