Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a trickle " in BNC.
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| 1 | And from the fields and villages of England , where work has slowed to a trickle and where the landlords have enclosed the common lands ( after 1802 ) SO that even subsistence living is difficult , from these fields comes a mighty army of labour . |
| 2 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 3 | When at last the influx appeared to have slowed to a trickle , the engine was started . |
| 4 | Because of the flooding of mines in the Donets valley the supply of fuel to industry was reduced to a trickle , as Deutscher noted : |
| 5 | The jobs are an attempt to inject ‘ new blood ’ into university departments where the turnover of staff has fallen to a trickle and to give new emphasis to information technology . |
| 6 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |
| 7 | At least the postbag was relatively light at the moment : so many people were away because of the holiday season that the normal deluge of correspondence had dried to a trickle . |
| 8 | To begin with , the sea-trout on which Delphi fishery 's international reputation is founded have been mysteriously dying in large numbers for two seasons , and the volume of fishing business has dwindled to a trickle . |
| 9 | It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town and the traffic had dwindled to a trickle . |
| 10 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |