Sentence examples for shrinking proportion from inspiring English sources

As a result, workers have been a shrinking proportion of the country's population since 1989.

Such leaders represent a shrinking proportion of the total share of emissions.

Nativists see the numbers, particularly the shrinking proportion of non-Hispanic whites, and fan the flames of racial hatred.

Its productive capacity keeps soaring, but Chinese consumers are taking home a shrinking proportion of the total economy.

The figures show a shrinking proportion of persistent absentees, defined as pupils who miss 10% or more classroom periods.

Population growth has provided a bit of a boost, but Americans have long spent a shrinking proportion of their income on food.

More than 600,000 families across England and Wales were told on Friday which secondary school their children would go to in September – but in many areas there was disappointment, with shrinking proportions receiving their first choice.

First, from 1970 to 1997, the number of physician-scientists obtaining National Institutes of Health (NIH) support has been essentially flat and shrinking in proportion to doctoral recipients who seek and obtain funding (27).

At the same time, the cost of servicing a still-sprawling city has not shrunk in proportion.

As children learn and grow, the adults in their lives shrink in proportion, even if only to their rightful size.

Since 1970, the more higher education has expanded, the more the liberal-arts sector has shrunk in proportion to the whole.