Sentence examples for a declining proportion of 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.

"Groups that form the core of G.O.P. support — older whites, blue-collar whites, married people and rural residents — are declining as a proportion of the electorate.

As associations have become more commercial, social rent is declining as a proportion of their income; in the case of Catalyst it represents only slightly over half.