trim something from something
trim something off something

The board was trimmed last year from 20 to 9.

Trim the skin and any dark areas from the fish.

An hour might have been trimmed from the production without much effort.

"I will have to trim about 200 square feet from the size of the house."

Here's some easy fat the president can trim from his budget.

Those and other measures would trim 4,700 jobs from the state work force.

The second version also trimmed 10 minutes from the film's beginning.

The money can, however, be used for new school construction, which is being trimmed to $642 million from $2 billion over the next three years.

The university has already trimmed $20 million from its spending plan.

State officials say that the school can expect an additional $45 million trimmed from next year's budget.