winnow down in a sentence

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1. Even if the burglar could not see which buttons were being pushed, if he observed thousands of entries and timed each with a stopwatch, he might eventually be able to winnow down the possible number of combinations that could be entered within that precise time span.
2. Their need to winnow down options means there's considerable discussion over which stocks to buy or sell, which is why the two have their desks-- bought at a warehouse full of used office-furniture for a few hundred dollars-- facing each other.
3. Hollinger International Inc . on Tuesday said that it would sell The Jerusalem Post to an Israeli media company for $ 13.2 million ( euro10.2 million ), marking the second sale of an international newspaper as the company winnows down its assets following the ouster of its former CEO Conrad Black.
4. :There also seem to be multiple reliable source issues you could take to that noticeboard and thereby winnow down the issues at ANI . I have not looked to see is taking place there, but that's the place, I gather, to take issue with the behaviour of a particular user.
5. Admin Gwen Gale recently scolded Collect for blatant edit warring, which s / he seems to relish : diff S / he started in on the Drudge Report page and has done almost nothing but remove data from it and winnow down the content, to the point of changing sources ( we were citing a page at Online Encyclopedia Britannica as a source for the word " conservative ", so Collect edited Britannica and changed the source's wording during the discussion ).