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Since then, each has been trying to whittle down the other's number.

He had whittled away at her until she'd given him more.

The thing must be all but whittled away by now.

Without job or family, his life was again whittled down to just himself.

A lead that had been 20 points was whittled to 6.

The American had been whittling away at that lead ever since.

After that, she said, whittle down the list to what is really important to us.

By close of play, the field will have been whittled down to the final six.

There used to be a lot more, but the years have whittled us away.

"Over the last couple of years, we've been trying to whittle down what our message should be."

That sort of fighting will whittle us down to nothing.

"You had reported that his strategy was to whittle them down."

The company's name was whittled down from about 400 names.

She said, "You were right to whittle them down while the chance was there."

Through the work of the police this was whittled down to below 300.

Whatever benefits you may have now are going to get whittled down to nothing.

"We began with a big list and have been whittling it down."

And a cast of 36 has been whittled down to 16.

And so gradually I whittled the people down to six.

"Did we really whittle them down by forty percent in one day?"

They started whittling him down, one leg and then the other.

Here the game is to whittle away at the edges.

He had the Council whittled down to five now, but it certainly looked like four too many!

With 19 minutes still remaining, the American lead was whittled to 3-2.

The lower part of the door had been whittled away and broken out.