Exempel på dwindle

• However, the population dwindled and, in 1952, the quota was reduced.

• Analysis of the data shows their proportions dwindling steadily.

• But institutional pressures ensured that on widowhood such opportunities dwindled, and there was every incentive to remarry.

• The fund contributors has dwindled to 200 from 575 a decade ago.

• It is also a social crisis, as the spectacle of dwindling and impoverished health, educational, welfare and other social services attest.

• Immigration at other ports dwindled, and, for expediency, immigrant medical inspection was increasingly conducted as part of the quarantine exam.

• Pathetically invoking some common good, the liberal parties dwindled through the 1920s.

• Groups that continued to reside near the lake shore turned to more marginal local resources as the wet gallery forest dwindled.

• But attendance at the public meetings in this cause soon began to dwindle.

• These all "dwindle down to this, and bring their littleness or greatness in fractional portions here" (530).

• Or, even more mysteriously, how could that desire appear strongly for a time, only to slowly dwindle away, leaving a strange void?

• They are still there but, proportionately speaking, their numbers have dwindled.

• Thus, if the employment rate of those in their early 60s rises, the supply of grandparent childcare may start to dwindle.

• The task of historians and the public is to make sure that interest does not dwindle.

• Second, dwindling financial resources from the state force the institution into a more business-like institution.