Sentence examples for of decreasing size from inspiring English sources

This house, created for an imaginary Essex woman called Julie, is like a nest of Russian dolls, four church-like houses of decreasing size.

There are 1.2 billion fixed telephone lines, and 1.3 billion people carry mobile phones of decreasing size and increasing complexity.

Three American flags of decreasing size are also on the wall, arranged again, curiously, like Johns's "Three Flags," one on top of another, the smallest flag folded on the diagonal.

The small bodies, roughly in order of decreasing size, are the asteroids, or minor planets; comets, including Kuiper belt and Oort cloud objects; meteoroids (see meteor and meteoroid); and interplanetary dust particles.

In order of decreasing size, the components of a surface system are the main collection ditch, field ditch, and field drain; and for a subsurface system, main, submain, and lateral conduits from the submain.

In Burmese stupas, however, the harmika becomes a decorated cubical die, above which is a circular pointed spire; in memory of its distant origin in India, the spire is horizontally flanged (rimmed) with moldings in a series of honorific umbrellas of decreasing size.

Describes one game--a complicated analogy to global poverty & epidemic disease--where children were divided by lottery into groups of decreasing sizes, with the larger groups preying on the smaller ones, and someone called "Death" preyed on them all.

The resulting BM suspension was carefully minced by passing it through subsequent pipettes of decreasing sizes.

PAM was run independently on primary tumors and cell lines using gene lists of decreasing sizes.

That opinion was supported by our findings of decreasing sizes of the LSO.

Ipsilateral pulmonary veins also showed a decreased calibre in every case; therefore UTLD should be included in the differential diagnosis of decreased size of pulmonary veins [15].