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Coaches 'compensation accounts for more than half that, and little whittling is going on there.

College football coaches see salaries rise in down economy 2009

I will begin whittling down the daily emails as folks migrate over to this better method, and will eventually discontinue them.

Super Librarian, the comic, available today Dan 2007

For his efforts in whittling down his times and picking up his spirits, Phelps is USATODAY. com's U.S. Olympic Athlete of the Week.

USATODAY.com - Phelps shakes off disappointment of merely winning 2006

I was complimenting Admiral Wood on the job the American Navy and her submarines had done in whittling clown the Japanese Navy and the great destruction of her merchant fleet-a natural thing for me to do.

The Unfinished Task 1945

But even mathematics Mr. Keith made interesting; he succeeded in whittling problems small enough to get through my brain.

The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

And then in the end, yes, it comes down to kind of whittling down the list and making sure we get a good representation of all that is sexy out there.

CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2005 2005

RACHEL GRIFFITHS, MOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN: You watch some TV shows and you know there ` s like this massive, you know, competition going between you know, God, she ` s lost three pounds, oh she ` s now lost five pounds (UNINTELLIGIBLE) she ` s lost even more, and you know there ` s this like skinny thing that happens and they all start kind of whittling down.

CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005 2005

You know, there ` s this, like, skinny thing that happens when they all start kind of whittling down.

CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2005 2005

This kind of whittling away at belief in the divinity of Jesus is scarcely new.

Revolution in the Church Sheehan, Thomas 1984

But both replied in almost identical terms, and I read an extract from one of the letters: I believe that the Allies have taken the correct line -- no 'whittling' away of our legal rights.

The Berlin Crisis 1959