Example sentences of "reduce to a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 2 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 3 | And , as Greve points out , in five years the rail journey between Paris , Brussels and Cologne will be reduced to a mere two hours and thirty-five minutes . |
| 4 | However , one report that took nearly two hours using version 4.2 was reduced to a mere 20 minutes using version 4.5 . |
| 5 | The German navy was restricted in its construction of both battleships and submarines , and the army was reduced to a puny 100,000 men . |
| 6 | Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris . |
| 7 | What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them . |