Once far more numerous and wide-ranging in the lower Mekong basin, the dolphin population declined precipitously in the 1970s, and current numbers are down to a few percent of the original population.
Narratives of bereavement, once rare, have grown more numerous in recent years: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Joyce Carol Oates's A Widow's Story are two devastating examples of the genre, each distinctive in its raw compulsion.
About the 10th or 11th century a new type of encyclopaedia began to emerge, probably stimulated by the growing number of language dictionaries that, starting well before printing was used, grew ever more numerous once they could be produced.
Astronomers said the first clear observations of such a stream of stars supported theories that the so-called globular clusters of stars, among the earliest objects in the universe, were once denser and even more numerous but have been depleted or destroyed by tidal forces like those of the Milky Way, Earth's galaxy.
After the Augsburg Interim religious agreement of 1548, resulting in the exile of numerous Protestants, John once more opposed the Emperor, but again, impelled by distrust of his fellow princes, returned to the imperial fold.
Though female leads are more numerous than they once were, television, like film, still tends to believe one is enough for any show — you can have a band of brothers but unless you are Shonda Rhimes or, this year, "Orange is the New Black," a group of women make a comedy, not a drama.
Higher-yielding dairy breeds, including the Frisian and Ayrshire, have become more numerous than the once-dominant Shorthorn.
During the last decade, regulatory agencies have increasingly recognized that persons sensitive or susceptible to PM are more numerous and diverse than once thought.
Once again, a large force of armed officers — more numerous than the protesters — charged the group, and arrested 36 people, witnesses and human rights activists said.
I hope that the next time we'll be more numerous," said Boit, whose cousin Mike once held the 800-meter world record in track.
