The Highlands once nourished a large population, but "Highland Clearances" (a series of forcible evictions) and continuous emigration since the 18th century have caused it to dwindle.
Mr. Matheson's 1956 novel "The Shrinking Man," a frightening fantasy about a man whose simultaneous exposure to insecticide and radioactivity causes him to dwindle gradually in size, was adapted twice for the movies — once as a horror story, "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957), and once as a comedy starring Lily Tomlin, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981).
After being a tutor for several years, a sense of routine and stagnation might appear causing enthusiasm to dwindle, as for this 61-year-old tutor at a hospital said: You can imagine after 3,4,5 years, perhaps it's time for a break to get a little... Everything becomes routine in some way Being a tutor was expressed as a commitment but also as a demand.
But ivory poachers have caused elephant numbers to dwindle, with the African elephant population plummeting by more than 110,000 over the past decade, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Their portfolio, which is evenly divided between stock and bond funds, has certainly had its share of rough patches, particularly during the market plunge in 2008 and 2009, which caused their savings to dwindle about 25 percent from the market peak.
By making book ownership more common, print also "diminished the lustre of the Renaissance library," causing many collections to dwindle or dissolve altogether as "the library as a cultural institution struggled to adapt to the new age".
But natural attrition should cause the workforce to dwindle over the next few years from 2,500 to a planned total of 2,000.As it happens, this is an ideal time to reorganise CERN.
Cantwell says more than half the town's homes are empty for most of the year, which causes the population to dwindle to as little as 10,000 in the winter months compared with 80,000 in August.
Humans selectively fish out the largest species from Earth's oceans, causing their populations to dwindle.
But over the last decade or so, the bees have fallen victim to a number of problems like parasites, pesticides, and disease, causing their numbers to dwindle 30% each year since 2006.
As drought and growing populations cause water supplies to dwindle in areas around the world, reclaimed wastewater offers a possible solution.
