Sentence examples for proportion shrinks from inspiring English sources

Although around half of their intake is female, that proportion shrinks rapidly as people climb the career ladder.

Although the proportion shrinks over time, one study found that the vast majority of the top 1% were still in the richest 10% a decade later.

Last week that proportion shrank to one-fifth, and 92percentt said peace was impossible if East Jerusalem did not become the Palestinian capital.

Although this proportion shrank over the next few decades, African Americans continued to constitute the majority of D.C.'s population into the early 2000s.

Nearly half the area's 101,448 residents are Hispanic or Latino, but from 2000 to 2010 their proportion shrank to 47 percent from 52, according to census data provided by Andrew A. Beveridge, the chairman of the Queens College sociology department.

These old-growth trees covered around 4% of the central highlands area in 1964 but by 2011 this proportion had shrunk to 1%.

Most of New Jersey's public school teachers are tenured, according to the New Jersey Education Association, though the proportion is shrinking because of the increasing number of new teachers.

But hardware will attract less than two-fifths of the $2.3trn that will be spent on IT in 2015, according to Forrester Research, and the proportion is shrinking.

But for those who served between 1984 and 1999, the proportion had shrunk to almost one in three, according to a study last year by the Presidential Appointee Initiative at the Brookings Institution, which I serve as an adviser.

In 1990, roughly half the global population lived on less than a dollar a day; by 2007, the proportion had shrunk to 28percentnt.

Shifting our sense of proportion, we shrink to its size sensing ourselves on a boardwalk, implicitly having left the floating world behind.