Esempi dal corpus di testo per WHITTLES
1. As one whittles away at embroidery and checks the stories, the impression grows that the atomic bomb is a tremendous, but not a peculiar weapon.
2. The 2008–2010 budget proposal whittles the surplus down from ''8.7 billion rubles ($38.56 billion) planned for this year to zero in 2010, and assumes that the price of Russia‘s main export, oil, will fall gradually.
3. Wednesday‘s ruling whittles down Yukos‘ stake in Sibneft to just 20 percent, effectively finalizing the breakup of the YukosSibneft merger, which would have been the world‘s fourth–largest oil company.
4. NASA hopes to complete three more missions to the space station this year and a servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope, as it whittles down an 11–flight manifest that must be finished by the time the shuttles are retired in 2010.