Sentence examples for shrinking percentage from inspiring English sources

Psychotherapy costs remain a tiny and shrinking percentage of our overall health care spending.

The most recent published data – from 2009 – shows the overall divorce rate declining, slightly more slowly than the shrinking percentage of Americans who get married every year.

Symphony orchestras are going out of business, most people don't like new music much (or don't get much chance to hear it), opera companies are cutting back, classical radio represents a sharply shrinking percentage of overall listenership.

Despite the logical errors in Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comments, we do face bankruptcy when the baby boomers retire and a shrinking percentage of workers must pay the ever growing expenses of a ballooning class of retirees.

As a party, Republicans continue to depend heavily on older working-class white voters in rural and suburban America — a shrinking percentage of the overall electorate — while Democrats rack up huge majorities among urban voters including blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.

Suicides among military veterans, though up slightly in recent years, account for a shrinking percentage of the nation's total number of suicides — a result of steadily rising numbers of suicides in the general population, according to a report released on Friday by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In countries where corporate saving rose, labour's share of GDP in the corporate sector shrank, by five percentage points in aggregate.Mr Karabarbounis and Mr Neiman link both rising corporate saving and labour's shrinking share of GDP to a fall in the relative price of investment goods that began in the early 1980s.

Mr. Reed said that the company expected to reduce risk by shrinking the percentage of investments in the stocks of large American companies, and investing a greater percentage of the portfolio in what he called "noncorrelated assets".

Also shrinking: the percentage of tenure-track positions offered.

And as lotteries compete for a small number of core players and try to persuade occasional customers to play more, nearly every state has increased, or is considering increasing, the size of its prizes — further shrinking the percentage of each dollar going to education and other programs.

"We have no clue how big the population is, whether it's shrinking, what percentage is it now of what it should be we just don't know," he says.