Example sentences of "be cut to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fastest time between King 's Cross and Edinburgh by HST in the 1980s was 4 hours and 23 minutes , with one stop at Newcastle ; this will be cut to 4 hours from May 1991 . |
| 2 | As announced on March 10 two shipyards in the Rostock area were to be sold to the Norwegian firm Kvaerner and one in Wismar to the German concern Bremer Vulkan ; the already much reduced workforce of 10,300 at these yards would be cut to 7,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ There is ’ , he writes ‘ even a laughable suggestion that the county programme should be cut to 16 four-day games ’ . |
| 4 | The budget deficit was to be cut to 60,000 million roubles by reducing central state expenditure on investment ( notably in heavy industry ) , the military and administration . |
| 5 | Current emissions of 500,000 tonnes a year would be cut to 73,000 tonnes once a modernization programme costing US$900,000,000 , funded in part by Finland , Norway and Sweden , had been carried out . |
| 6 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 7 | THE women 's European golf tour , which in the mid-1980s comprised more than 20 tournaments , may be cut to 11 this year . |
| 8 | If this is correct , the women 's calendar will be cut to 11 tournaments , though that figure does not take in the Solheim Cup or the New World Cup to be held in Taiwan . |
| 9 | At the same time , it proposes that duty on biofuels be cut to one tenth of that on petrol and diesel . |
| 10 | Despite having an army of 285,000 ( to be cut to 250,000 over the next three years ) , France would have been hard-pressed to do more . |
| 11 | The mirror can be silver , bronze tinted or smoke tinted , and the panels can be cut to six , and have their edges finished in a number of different ways . |
| 12 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 13 | Unemployment benefit may be cut to six months |
| 14 | A staff of 27 would need to be cut to 17 . |
| 15 | This stipulates that emissions of sulphur dioxide must be cut to 10 million tonnes below 1980 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 16 | A cast of thousands may have to be cut to seven . |
| 17 | Manpower will be cut faster than the Bush administration intended ; the total number of people in uniform will be reduced by 108,000 instead of 83,000 , and the number in Europe will be cut to 133,700 instead of 150,000 . |
| 18 | It was initially feared that the number of grants would be cut to 50 per cent of the normal level ; however , the Council was able to allocate 65 per cent . |
| 19 | The present workforce of 112 would be cut to 60 . |
| 20 | The key change was the announcement that the income tax charge on company dividends is from 6 April to be cut from 25 to 20 per cent and that the accompanying tax credit will also be cut to 20 per cent . |
| 21 | The key announcement was that mortgage interest tax relief is to be cut to 20 per cent from 25 per cent on 6 April , 1994 . |
| 22 | Dutch manure and fertiliser rates are due to be reduced until a 50 mg/litre soil water concentration is achieved at 2m depth , later to be cut to 25 mg/litre . |
| 23 | The armed forces were already scheduled to be cut to 370,000 as a consequence of the negotiations with the former Soviet Union concerning withdrawal of its troops from Germany . |
| 24 | He recommended that the selection committee should be cut to three . |
| 25 | The weary visitor would sigh with relief that the production had at least been cut to two hours , and head for the nearest library where she might enjoy reading about the buried feminine aspects of the play . |
| 26 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |
| 27 | Ever since Munro visited the area on his mammoth feat of cataloguing , and inexplicably rejected the locals ' claim of its 3000 foot stature for his original table of 283 Munros ( the figure has now been cut to 277 ) , Foinavon has been lurking in the wings . |
| 28 | FORMER champion hurdler Beech Road has been cut to 12–1 for Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup even though there is an outside chance he could miss the race . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Richard Dunwoody , currently 16 winners ahead of reigning title holder Peter Scudamore , has been cut to 4–9 ( from 4–6 ) to land his first jockey 's championship . |
| 30 | despite the fact that the field had been cut to 76 and the competitors were out in twos . |