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The phrase "a shrinking of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a reduction or decrease in size, quantity, or extent of something.
Example: "The report indicated a shrinking of the polar ice caps over the past decade."
Alternatives: "a reduction in" or "a decrease of".
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By calling for a shrinking of government, he is promising to shrink the federal work force.
Gove's vision is elitist and unopposed to a shrinking of the sector.
We are also witnessing a mass-commercialisation of legal education, and a shrinking of the curriculum.
But it also reflects a shrinking of near-term ambitions as budget cutters seek to rein in federal spending.
But in America the swelling of the public balance-sheet has mirrored a shrinking of private ones.
"I think something fundamental has changed, a shrinking of possibility and ambition, that may be permanent," he said.
Periods of wetter climate resulted in a much expanded paleolake and a shrinking of the eastern lacustrine plain mosaic into a narrow zone.
This in turn translates into a shrinking of the time window available for operators to identify an unfolding hazardous condition or situation and intervene to abate it.
The result is the familiar American paradox of beneficiaries of government largess who passionately call for a shrinking of the state.
Studies suggest that the disorder may be associated with structural changes in the brain — in particular, a shrinking of the hippocampus, a region associated with memory.
Civil-society critics in India now talk of a "shrinking of democratic space": their freedom of expression remains, but they know the consequences if they use it.
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