Exempel på slimmed

• Press was put on the market as a profitable company, and slimmed down to increase its profitability.

• This responsibility was retained by slimmed-down local health authorities who were re-invented as, in some sense, the collective representation of the ' purchasing power ' of the local population.

• It has been not fattened up but slimmed down to prepare it for privatisation.

• I heard her say this on television recently; industry is being slimmed down; it is being made leaner.

• The challenge to achieve self-sufficiency in food has produced a slimmed down, highly mechanised industry.

• They re-equipped and slimmed down their work force almost to non-existence.

• I believe that it can be slimmed down considerably and still give acceptable protection.

• It has continually slimmed down the number of people working there.

• They have been slimmed down, especially in respect of supervisory ranks.

• Between 1981 and 1983, the industry was slimmed down and made more productive.

• We may have slimmed elements peripheral to our basic defence needs, but we have kept the essentials.

• According to the slimmed-down consultation document, the mayor should "make things happen".

• Wool-combing and top-making are doing well, admittedly with a slimmed-down work force, but some companies are on a seven-day week.

• Clearly, the new slimmed-down management of the company should be adjacent to the action.

• The slimmed-down version of the national curriculum, which has recently come on stream, focuses much more on basic mathematics among the core skills.