Translations for „whittle down“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

whittle down VB trans

whittle down

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Other teams still have to whittle down from 30 - a traumatic process that jangles nerves and threatens to undermine morale at a crucial stage.

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Over the coming weeks, the takeaways will receive mystery shopping assessments to whittle down the line up.

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It was a comfortable margin, but defections always seemed to whittle down the lead and sometimes produced defeat.

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In the end, he had 2.5 million words, which he had to whittle down to 110,000.

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The couple's main goal is to whittle down their debt.

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Transaction costs and price cuts would whittle down existing equity and impede financing availability.

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Carefully whittle down the end of a round stick so it fits snugly in the end, reaching down to the beginning of the hole.

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He said the changes are necessary as the province works to whittle down a $16-billion deficit.

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If we can whittle down the particular capacities most important in entrepreneurship, with some imagination, there's no reason we can't teach them.

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By functionality, the legislature was supposed to be the most senior partner in the tripod but many things have happened to whittle down that effect.

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