The phrase "a diminished population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a population that has decreased in size or number, often in contexts related to demographics, ecology, or social issues.
Example: "The region has faced significant challenges due to a diminished population, leading to economic decline and reduced services."
Alternatives: "a reduced population" or "a declining population".
But his performances are hardly portraits of a diminished star.
On further screening, some of the patients initially selected may be excluded for other reasons, resulting in a much diminished population who actually enter the treatment arm of a study [in our recent experience in recruiting to a large RCT only 14% of the originally identified suitable population are eventually randomised to therapy (clinicaltrials.gov – NCT00447759)].
But even after a century, that diminished population may yet hold a surprise.In 1908 two apes were shot near a place called Bondo, in northern Congo.
However, GCPs expressing the dominant negative CEP290-R1746Q vareant are defective in their response to the Shh morphogen thus resulting in a diminished GCP population and consequent neuroarchitectural alterations.
Of even greater concern, experts say, is the potential impact that a diminished butterfly population could have on interconnected habitats and species across North America.
Recent studies that have used cultured cells and genetic mouse models have elucidated a number of elegant adaptations that allow cells with a diminished mitochondrial population to function effectively in hypoxia.
Now its diminished population is seeking those who were lost, along with food, drinking water and clothing.
The reduced agricultural output, however, was still large enough to support the even more diminished population.
Even after the dark years of the second world war, which saw 75,000 French Jews deported and murdered, the diminished population of French Jews took their place again as citizens of the country that had invented the Rights of Man, conscious of the unfathomable betrayal of the government and the fact that Jewish identity under Vichy had been racialised.
