Sentence examples for a gradually shrinking from inspiring English sources

The improved control law can guarantee the system state move within a gradually shrinking quasi-sliding mode band.

The Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the east, which Justinian ruled in the sixth century, carried on, in a gradually shrinking territory, until 1453, when its capital, Constantinople (also known as Byzantium and Istanbul), fell to the Ottoman Turks.

They adore Suzu and love looking after her; she gives them a new purpose in life and a new kind of personal direction, and yet her existence reminds them of their own orphaned situation and weirdly infantilised existence, babes in a gradually shrinking wood of their own making.

In contrast with a gradually shrinking profession with little appeal to younger generations, employment in aquaculture has been steadily increasing for the past 10 years.

Some are wearing glittery leotards, top hats, and kimonos, and many have driven some 170 miles southeast from Los Angeles to arrive here on the coast of the Salton Sea, a gradually shrinking body of water so saturated with salt and pesticides from agricultural runoff that scientists have called it an environmental disaster in the making.

Women's salaries still trail men's by a significant (but gradually shrinking) margin, leading many women to circumvent the impact of the glass ceiling altogether by becoming entrepreneurs.

To do so, a chromosome is swept with sliding windows of different sizes starting with a long window and gradually shrinking it.

But an aging population and gradually shrinking labor force risks fanning inflation in the longer term, the I.M.F. said, while low interest rates and a lack of places for savers to invest their cash mean there is a lingering risk of bubbles in the already hot property sector.

This kind of detente ultimately favors Russia's involvement, but only in the gradually-shrinking sphere of influence that is gradually shrinking around the Assad regime.

Population 1,200 and gradually shrinking, it is the seat of a county without a single traffic light.

An additional 1,500 people remained on the official list of those who remained unaccounted for, which ballooned in a flood of worried phone calls but is gradually shrinking as the names of the living and the dead are scratched off.