Sentence examples for case of diminishing from inspiring English sources

But recent entries have been a case of diminishing returns, culminating in 2010's panned Survival of the Dead.

A symposium in the current issue of Journal of Economic Perspectives looks at the future of the subject from different angles, and suggests some interesting answers.But a first possibility (an obvious one, you might think, to practitioners of the dismal science) was somewhat neglected: maybe the discipline has come down with nothing more complicated than a bad case of diminishing returns.

It's a case of diminishing returns.

The data also shows a case of diminishing returns.

I have no intention of transcribing the original Greek text: the paucity of readers of ancient Greek out there make it a case of diminishing returns.

I once had a grand scheme of indexing the places on this map and others (sample: Baetica, Map 1), and even of folding the indexes into a comprehensive index of all placenames onsite; but my site has become so large, search engines out there have become so good, and so few people would use such an index, that I've decided it's a case of diminishing returns: you're on your own...

Krapp's ritual of recording a birthday retrospect (a case of many diminishing returns) creates a bleak vista of bitter schadenfreude and Gambon conveys all the grim comedy of this as he chuckles sometimes with, sometimes at the condescension of the mid-lifer towards the taped resolves of a still younger self.

I would not be shocked if this movie has legs, as it's solid meat-n-potatoes entertainment, but it's still a case of expected diminishing returns for once-mighty IP in the hopes of overseas pay-off.

We next consider the case of a diminishing step-size sequence and prove that there exists a subsequence of the sequence generated by the algorithm which weakly converges to a solution to the problem.

New York's hospital for fistula patients closed in 1895 because of diminishing cases and now the condition is almost unknown in America -- yet Khartoum has 10 to 20 new patients arriving from the countryside each week because of poor midwifery.

In a recent statement, WLGA health and social services spokesman Mel Nott said: "The idea that the bill is cost neutral simply cannot be the case, particularly in this climate of diminishing budgets".