The phrase "a combination of shrinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the merging or blending of different elements that involve a reduction in size or quantity.
Example: "The project involved a combination of shrinking resources and increasing demands, which posed significant challenges for the team."
Alternatives: "a blend of reduction" or "a mixture of contraction".
A combination of shrinking incomes and rising living costs, coupled with high personal debts meant the "reality of everyday life has got tougher" for low-income families since April when a series of welfare changes, such as the bedroom tax, were introduced, the report said.
As detailed in FX Guide, a team of visual effects experts used a combination of shrinking and scaling, body doubles and even digital head replacement (sounds painful!) to create an image of Evans that was, in some areas, up to 30percentt smaller than in real life -- presumably because a real-life shrimp-to-superhero transformation would be quite the heavy lift (pun intended).
The equity division at Goldman has been under pressure since the bubble in technology stocks burst, squeezed by the combination of shrinking commission rates and a cost base that remains high.
As requests pour in, the combination of shrinking net worth and job uncertainty can be immobilizing.
The combination of shrinking supply and expanding demand has pushed up the price of oud by as much as 500 percent over the last 20 years.
The combination of shrinking audience and donor interest has been compounded by the poor economy.
The daily stem radius variation from late March through end of October was then determined by calculating the difference between mean values of two consecutive days ("daily mean approach", Deslauriers et al. 2007), which represents a combination of reversible shrinking and swelling and irreversible radius growth (Herzog et al. 1995; Daudet et al. 2005; Steppe et al. 2006).
Frailty was classified using the criteria established by Fried et al., as a combination of five components: shrinking, weakness, exhaustion, low activity, and slowed walking speed.
There is strong evidence in the literature that the decline in muscle strength that occurs with aging results from a combination of muscle mass shrinking and the deterioration of muscle "quality".
— New research found a combination of two drugs shrank brain tumors in patients with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.
The developed method uses a combination of L1-Median and Laplacian shrinking algorithms.
