Sentence examples for diminishing amounts from inspiring English sources

David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.

To examine the effect of the quantity of nucleating agent, we chose one crystallization condition (lysozyme/dried seaweed, condition D3: 0.1 M Hepes (pH 7.5), 2% PEG 400, 2 M ammonium sulfate) and set up drops with diminishing amounts of nucleant (6 replicate drops for each amount of nucleant).

The effect of diminishing amounts of input total RNA was also tested.

The market malfunctions have been assigned part of the blame for the diminishing amount of trading happening on the nation's stock exchanges.

Nursing home care will represent a diminishing amount of long-term care over all, with retirement communities, assisted living and home- and community-based options becoming more attractive alternatives.

The popularity of meal replacement drinks has been surging in the United States over the past few years, driven by the obesity epidemic and Americans' diminishing amount of leisure time, according to market research firm CB Insights.

Our future, if we continue on our current projectile, is one in which an increasing amount of time, energy and money is spent in the pursuit of moulding our physical forms into a socially accepted blu-print and a diminishing amount of time is devoted to doing anything else.

And there's limited income to deal with, so everybody's going after a diminishing amount of dollars going towards an ever-expanding amount of entertainment.

This drop is due to the increase in sheet resistance owing to the diminishing amount of aluminum remaining in the film.

This has the effect that multiple ranging updates will not make the position error covariance collapse, which captures the fact that due to correlated errors, during standstill, multiple range measurements will contain a diminishing amount of information; and during motion, the range measurements should only 'herd' the dead reckoning.

In a previous study, Rosén and Gustafsson (2014) concluded that the negative effects of computer use were best accounted for with a displacement theory, specifying the negative effects of computers to be due to a diminishing amount of time and interest being spent on reading.