Sentence examples for a declining proportion from inspiring English sources

In these countries, aid represents a declining proportion of budgets and overall income.

A declining proportion of New York's workforce is engaged in manufacturing activities.

India's young population gives it a fast-growing workforce and a declining proportion of dependants.

"But they are a declining proportion of the population overall, so it's a bit hard to disentangle those two things".

Whites, who constituted a declining proportion of the population, could not meet the demand for skilled and semiskilled labour.

"The youngest age cohort, particularly the 24- to 35-year-olds, are a declining proportion of home owners," he told the inquiry.

The full C.D.C. report shows similar trends in the broader population over age 65: a steadily declining proportion of deaths in hospitals (just over one-third in 2007, down from nearly half in 1989) and a rising proportion of deaths at home (24 percent in 2007, up from 15 percent in 1989).

Spending on debt interest payments has also been taking up a generally declining proportion of total spending over time.

Agriculture is now the major land use but, with increased mechanization, employs only a small and declining proportion of the population.

Because meadows comprised a small and declining proportion (< 5%%) of the total habitat available to ungulates in LNF, and relative habitat use (and, consequently, potential for herbivory) varied greatly, it is particularly important to identify those factors affecting use of meadows.

There was a declining trend in the proportion of all syndromes diagnosed amongst HRGs from 2005 to 2009, as shown in Table 6.