Sentence examples for been steadily shrinking from from inspiring English sources

However, the US naval fleet has been steadily shrinking from its high of more than 500 ships during the Reagan years of the 1980s down to the less than 300 today.

This will no doubt come as a great relief to our helpful commenters who each week kindly suggest that for maximum environmental impact we simply stop procreating altogether: family sizes in the western world are steadily shrinking, from an average of 3.37 people in 1950 to just 2.6 today.

Michael's margins, once in the thousands, back when the birthrate was a lot higher, have been steadily shrinking for decades.

But the U.S. middle class has been steadily shrinking, dropping from 61% of all adults 40 years ago to a bare majority now, a new study finds.

At J. P. Morgan and other banks, revenues have been steadily shrinking.

Actually, the gap between Jonathan and Sam has been steadily shrinking over the years anyway.

(Because of rising temperatures, the number of days that the road is passable has been steadily shrinking).

Although it is still the most visited page on the web, its share of global searches has been steadily shrinking.

The tyre factories have long since moved overseas and the city's population has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s.

The IMF's capital has been steadily shrinking relative to the world economy: its clout is half what it was in 2000.

The numbers portray a significantly smaller city than in the previous census, in 2000, though it should be said that New Orleans had been steadily shrinking even then.