Now you go figure it out.' " Some businesses find it particularly preferable to shrink portions than to charge more.
"The city is still a shrinking portion of our allocation".
White voters are a shrinking portion of the county's demographic.
In addition, she said, "Smith" was keeping a shrinking portion of the audience of the two hit shows that preceded it on Tuesday nights, "The Unit" and "NCIS".
Blue-collar voters in Iowa and New Hampshire came out in force for Trump and Sanders, but, over all, they represent a shrinking portion of the electorate.
"You might make 10 per cent profit because the meat is so expensive and there's so much of it," says Sax. Shrinking portion sizes is not an option.
Equally important, she said, some restaurants have changed their menu offerings, shrinking portion sizes, reducing the fat in pastries or substituting low-fat milk for cream.
Discouraged by their career prospects if they study abroad, even at elite universities, a shrinking portion of Japanese college students is seeking higher education in the West.
While pay at investment banks is taking up a "shrinking portion of a shrinking pot," to quote New Financial, pay at asset management firms is taking a constant portion of a "growing pot".
Not only was "Smith" keeping less of its lead-in audience, but a shrinking portion of the previous week's viewers returned each week to see the next installment of "Smith".
