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As an inventor, he made machines, like a rotating desk out of clockworks and whittled wood.

But the shortlist has now been whittled down to a final 10, with Dublin’s Croke Park, Manchester’s Old Trafford, Sunderland’s Stadium of Light and the London Stadium all facing the cut.

Li Keqiang, an economist from a rival faction to Xi who held less hard-line Marxist-Leninist views than the Chinese president, saw his power slowly whittled away during his decade in power.

Over time, though, PyPy’s developers have whittled away at this issue, and made PyPy far more compatible with the majority of Python packages that depend on C extensions.

Thankfully, it whittled down the possible answers to nine, and we made a fortunate fourth guess.

The longlisted titles will now be whittled down to a six strong shortlist by a panel of judges chaired by esteemed British producer and Books Editor for BBC Radio Di Speirs.

The MassChallenge program involves an elimination competition in which hundreds of companies are whittled down to a few dozen finalists over the course of several months.

The Town Hall is staying tight-lipped on the final designs, but have confirmed the winners of the design contest - which started as a field of 10, was whittled down to six, and is now at four - will be publicly announced later in the summer.

With that in mind, we’ve whittled it down to eight with a 5 out of 5 rating from a minimum of 15 Google reviews.

A government spokesperson said last week the backlog has been whittled down to one file.

A Labour spokesman said: "The Tories whittled down a list of five people who played key roles in 14 years of chaos and decline, to four people who played key roles in 14 years of chaos and decline.

In Japan, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.4 per cent after a report showed strong auto exports whittled down the nation’s trade deficit and it racked up solid returns on overseas investments.

In total, 26 rural businesses from across the North of England have been shortlisted for the Countryside Alliance Awards, after thousands of nominations from across the country were whittled down to a final few.

Much as the powers of the traditional rulers have been whittled down politically with the emergence of the nation state, they still wield a lot of influence among the people who revere their traditional norms.

Or how much shorter should they have whittled down the interview?

Panay later told that he and his teams whittled down a list of more than 50 AI-powered feature ideas to this final pair.

The grand prize of €1000 has seen a huge entry list but the judges have whittled it down to night finalists.

The next round of voting will see the field whittled down to four next Tuesday.

The show, hosted by Lee Mack, sees 100 contestants start out in the studio before they are whittled down.

The stakes have never been higher for the Top 9, and this week’s episodes will see this group whittled down to the Top 5. Then, things get dicey as the Finals begin.