(How much did B movies owe to the A-bomb?) He dwindled gradually, however, as if to demonstrate that bourgeois existence could grind you down, whereas the new shrinker can pop back to regular proportions as and when he desires.
The up-and-coming young novelist of the period before the First World War, capable of producing three novels in as many years, turned to shorter forms, and saw his audience and his income dwindle gradually through the war years and the nineteen-twenties.
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).
The federal match under the ACA gradually dwindles to 90% federal dollars by 2020, but is still better than the standard federal match of between 50% and 75% that existed before President Barack Obama signed the ACA into law.
These settlements were overreliant on government finance and gradually dwindled in number.
Manufacturing employment, meanwhile, has gradually dwindled nationwide, particularly in the Midwest.
But public interest in the controversial issue of press regulation has gradually dwindled, even among journalists.
At their peak they were sold in chemists and petrol stations.The band of analogue holdouts is gradually dwindling.
While the crowds gradually dwindled on Thursday organisers were bracing themselves for big numbers at the weekend.
Although papers have previously called it a "crucial battle", the coverage has gradually dwindled away over the past week or so.
Since then, supplies of methotrexate have gradually dwindled to the point where oncologists now say they are fearful that shortfalls may occur at many hospitals within two weeks.
