"The growing population of pensioners is being funded by a relatively shrinking number of people in employment", says Paul Sweeting, a University of Kent actuarial science professor.
But given the relatively shrinking size of RR compared to OR, our ability to ensure that these countries receive similar priority in total resources becomes increasingly problematic.
There is a drastic decline for small clusters C1 to C4, meanwhile larger clusters C4, C6, C8 are presenting a relatively gradual shrink.
That combination of relatively rare capacities shrinks the pool of suspects.
The rise in spending is concentrated in a relatively small, and shrinking, number of battlegrounds.
The forest had shrunk relatively little, to 58% of the total coastline.A third accusation against shrimp farming that it damages other local fisheries is more finely balanced.
On the other hand, Paul Kennedy may well be right to predict that the United States will shrink relatively in wealth, and therefore power, as its Asian and European rivals grow.
Cable companies have seen TV subscriptions shrink relatively slowly in recent years as customers price-shop and switch to two types of competitors — satellite distributors like DirecTV and Dish Network, and telecommunications competitors like Verizon and AT&T.
Martin Rosenberg, who recently retired after leading research on infectious-disease drugs at GlaxoSmithKline, said, "It's certainly made people aware that there are issues around the fact that the number of drugs we have against micro-organisms is relatively small and shrinking".
Many of the beggars under sleeping bags or cardboard boxes in the Strand go on to sleep elsewhere, once potential benefactors have gone home.The fact that the number of homeless people sleeping rough is relatively small and shrinking (there were thought to be 2,000 "rough sleepers" a night in London in the early 1990s) is not preventing the government throwing a lot of money at the problem.
