Sentence examples for ratio shrinks from inspiring English sources

During the lifetime of most of today's workers the system will begin running out of money, as more and more baby boomers retire and the ratio shrinks between workers paying taxes and retirees receiving monthly checks.

If the market for technology stocks has actually cooled significantly, "we're back to where Cisco has to surprise, and there's probably going to be some multiple contraction over time," he said, implying that Cisco's stock might fall even if its earnings increase as its price-earnings ratio shrinks.

Three months may not seem a huge difference, but according to Dr Christakis it is comparable to the benefit an elderly person can expect from exercising or losing some surplus weight.In an American context, these results are, perhaps, no more than an interesting curiosity: at the age of 15, boys outnumber girls by about 4% and the ratio shrinks towards equality thereafter.

The results illustrate that by increasing n, the flame length increases while flame luminosity weakens, steady tubular flame range in equivalence ratio shrinks, and the flame temperature decreases.

In 1992, male cyclists outnumbered female cyclists four to one; by 2006, the ratio shrank to two to one.

In the years after the recession, the country continued to prosper; as the developed world grappled with the consequences of their public debts, Israel's debt-to-G.D.P. ratio shrunk.

Schroeder would like to see that ratio shrink to 50% as the company's other divisions grow.

The Merrill analysts cite the examples of Intel, which saw its price-to-earnings ratio shrink some 8% after paying its first dividend.

Ireland's government produced balanced budgets in the early 2000s and growing surpluses in the mid-2000s, and its debt-to-GDP ratio shrunk to an enviable 20%.

Inventory-to-sales ratios shrink; companies are less likely to overproduce.

Though erudite voices (Gambaccini, Ellen, Paphides) contextualise, breathless fanboy gabble steers us around the boozing and boorishness ("When he sang, nobody cared," smiles Louis Walsh), and there are counterintuitive choices: even clips from the widescreen From Here to Eternity are framed in a ratio that shrinks rather than amplifies this legend.