Cattle were not of immediate importance to the people of ancient Southwest Asia, although aurochs (Bos primigenius), the wild ancestors of modern cattle, were hunted throughout the region by about 10,000 bp and for the next 1,000 years diminished in body size.
The difference between the analyzed and calculated melt compositions for the next step diminished at the 5th iteration, and the chemical compositions of residual minerals reached those of the solidus minerals within error at the 5th iteration.
She fails to handle suspense well, frequently revealing just enough of what will happen next to diminish your desire to actually read about it.
A care programme for the challenging behaviour of nursing home residents with dementia might, next to diminishing the challenging behaviour of residents, improve job satisfaction and reduce the care staff's feelings of burnout.
Sixty years later, NBC is posed with the opposite threat -- it is now competing in a world where it has been so greatly diminished next to media giants like AOL Time Warner and Viacom that its future vitality is widely considered to be in peril.
Smartphone use in the evenings is linked to delayed sleep onset--the time it takes to fall asleep--as well as disruptions to circadian timing, reduced daytime alertness, and diminished next-day performance at work.
There has been a sense that whatever comes next must naturally be diminished.
At the same time, fiscal space to support the economy during the next downturn has been diminished by the deficit-financed tax cut.
"The likelihood of things moving on that in the next Congress are greatly diminished," said a Republican aide in the House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to speculate on legislation before the new committee assignments were set.
The circumstances robbed Rangers of much of the benefit of being the hosts, while St Johnstone's advantage of being the Premiership side in a cup tie against a team from the next division down was diminished by their poor recent form.
