"The growing population of pensioners is being funded by a relatively shrinking number of people in employment", says Paul Sweeting, a University of Kent actuarial science professor.
But given the relatively shrinking size of RR compared to OR, our ability to ensure that these countries receive similar priority in total resources becomes increasingly problematic.
When rsp was decreased to 0.1 or less, the measured size of the PB-rich domain relatively shrank; however, the height images of the PB-rich domain would take reverse (translating from the original light to dark) at rsp = 0.85.
There is a drastic decline for small clusters C1 to C4, meanwhile larger clusters C4, C6, C8 are presenting a relatively gradual shrink.
The rise in spending is concentrated in a relatively small, and shrinking, number of battlegrounds.
The highly targeted version of the drug increased its efficacy in tests in mice, even at relatively low doses, shrinking tumors and extending survival.
Martin Rosenberg, who recently retired after leading research on infectious-disease drugs at GlaxoSmithKline, said, "It's certainly made people aware that there are issues around the fact that the number of drugs we have against micro-organisms is relatively small and shrinking".
Chong Koh is relatively small, and shrinking — Cambodian authorities would like it to disappear entirely — but it lies about a mile from the heart of Kampong Chhnang, the large provincial capital, and as Hoarith worked, a steady fleet of peddlers took their boats to and from its markets.
Many of the beggars under sleeping bags or cardboard boxes in the Strand go on to sleep elsewhere, once potential benefactors have gone home.The fact that the number of homeless people sleeping rough is relatively small and shrinking (there were thought to be 2,000 "rough sleepers" a night in London in the early 1990s) is not preventing the government throwing a lot of money at the problem.
Exports to and imports from its dominant trade partners like Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. have been consistently shrinking (relatively) over the last decade even as that from China and India have been rising, says Gunajit Kalita, researcher, Regional Impact, ICREAR.
They also tend to be, as urban analyst Aaron Renn has noted, "white cities," with relatively small and often shrinking populations of historically disadvantaged minorities.
