Sentence examples for diminished to one from inspiring English sources

Before the drought he could sell a camel for £185; now the barter price has diminished to one bag of maize.

The asteroid achieved notoriety in 2002, when astronomers announced that it had a one in 300 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2880, though that probability has since diminished to one in 19,800.

In reaction to the McCarthyite red-baiting of scientists, he expressed disdain that Science, that was going to save the world in H. G. Wells' time is regimented, straight-jacked, [and] scared shitless, its universal language diminished to one word: security.

With this polypyrrole tailoring, the carbon's pore volume distributions diminished to one-third, as characterized by argon adsorption.

An autopsy revealed his lungs had diminished to one-eighth their normal breathing capacity, a result of bronchial pneumonia, and that an egg-sized abscess on his chest had eroded one of his ribs.

If, for example, the separation between the two poles is doubled, the magnetic force diminishes to one-fourth its former value.

Canada and the USA recognised the need for elimination of persistent toxic substances from the Great Lakes and introduced the concept of half-life of a substance in water as a measure (criterion) for persistence [31, 50]: "Half-life means the time required for the concentration of a substance to diminish to one-half of its original value in a lake or water body".

Work by the Dallas Federal Reserve suggests that the economy's sensitivity to changes in the oil price has diminished to only one-sixth its level in the 1970s and 1980s.

Two decades after that appointment, Khamenei has become so powerful that the assembly's role has diminished to a symbolic one with members acting as his devotees, stripped of all their supervisory power even though they are still being elected in public votes.

The absence of M1 lineages in our Ghanaian population goes along with previous findings that M1 is most frequent in East Africa with two appreciable gradients one diminishing to the South and a second to the West [29].

Now is not the time to confuse the role of the Constitution in American life or diminish it to one political movement or another.