Sentence examples for diminished to zero from inspiring English sources

The phrase "diminished to zero" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it when referring to something that has been reduced or downsized to nothing. Example sentence: The number of applicants for the job was slowly but surely diminished to zero.

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10 The initial pooled effect size of −0.75 (−0.99 to −0.50) in favour of chondroitin sulphate diminished to zero when the analysis was restricted to methodologically sound trials of adequate sample size.

The high frequency (62%) observed at the 5′ end of the island (assay-A) decreased to 19% around the MyoD, AP-2, p53 and WT-1 transcription factor binding sites (assay-B) and diminished to zero at the start of the first exon (assay-C).

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According to testimony given at the trial of the Albanian cell members, however, the membership of Islamic Jihad outside Egypt had diminished to forty.

The path, which in the beginning had been carved wide and deep by dozens of ski tracks, diminished to two, then disappeared.

With the election of Harold Wilson and Labour in 1964 the demand for scrutiny became apparent, but with a majority of five – diminished to three after Patrick Gordon Walker was defeated in Leytonstone – it was assumed that the time for constitutional experiment was not ripe.

On Valentine's Day, I see red and white lights flashing from afar at the nunnery and walk faster in the hope that the nuns are having a love party, a disco rager, but instead I see an ambulance drive away, and the next day my fears are confirmed: the nuns have been further diminished, to two.

For his Liverpool team-mates the consequences were defining: diminished to ten men with 18 minutes to play and with their momentum gone they allowed Fulham back into a game which, at times, the home side were barely clinging onto in the second half.

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.

While 13 focus group members had originally signed up to take part in three English focus groups, planned for lunchtime sessions during the annual BSG Conference (in keeping with 15 members attending three focus groups in Wales), the actual number was greatly diminished to five.

With U.S. beef imports gradually increasing, tariffs ranging as high as 40 percent under the agreement would diminish to zero in 15 years.

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