The noise and rain diminished, but the water kept rising.
Then the rain diminished until all that was left were scattered clicks from the drops falling from the pines.
Yet the show did go on, eventually, with the rain diminishing to a drizzle through the 90-minute program's first two pieces and stopping altogether by the third and last.
For our study area, the model can be described as follows: as rains diminish in November and December, larval habitats disappear and the environment becomes drier, so the population of mosquitoes in the larger inland village decreases to very few An.
Rain, a diminishing crowd of protesters and a decision by police to keep a relatively low profile led to a largely uneventful evening.
On Wednesday night, rain, a diminishing crowd of protesters and a decision by the police to keep a relatively low profile led to a largely uneventful evening at the scene of nearly two weeks of demonstrations.
After lunch, the rain had diminished to a steady downpour, causing Barry to remark, "Aren't we lucky?" Had I been married to him and had we been traveling alone, I would have torn his head off after such a comment.
The rains have diminished the fires' most noxious problem, thick smoke from burning lakebeds and swamplands that have been dried out by a drought now in its fourth year.
Temperatures are slightly more extreme in the east, but a more critical variable is rainfall, which diminishes as the rain-bearing winds from the Atlantic become increasingly erratic east of the Don.
