How to say a lot of companies have pared their staff down to a minimum. in Japanese
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多く多く(ooku) (adv) many/much/largely/abundantly/mostlyのの(no) (prt) indicates possessive/nominalizes verbs and adjectives/substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases/indicates a confident conclusion/ indicates emotional emphasis/indicates question会社会社(kaisha) (n) company/corporation/workplaceがが(ga) (prt) indicates sentence subject/indicates possessive/but/however/still/and人員人員(jin in) (n) number of persons/personnelをを(wo) (prt) indicates direct object of action/indicates subject of causative expression/indicates an area traversed/indicates time over which action takes place/indicates point of departure or separation of action/indicates object of desire, like, hate,最低限最低限(saiteigen) (n) minimumにに(ni) (prt) indicates such things as location of person or thing, location of short-term action, etc.までまで(made) (prt) until/till/to/up to/to/as far as/to/up to/so far as/even/only/merely縮小縮小(shukushou) (n,vs,adj-no) reduction/curtailmentしたした(shita) (n) did/a past form of the previous verb/tongue/tongue-like object/clapper/talon。。(。) Japanese period "."
