Sentence examples for shrinking quantities from inspiring English sources
Staring out from under a wiry thicket of eyebrows, he would rummage in his desk drawer and comment caustically on its contents, compare the shrinking quantities of coffee tins, ruminate on the existence of God – he was an agnostic – or mock the absurdities of the politically correct.
This concept is closely related to one called "decoupling," which suggests that the growing efficiency of machines has weakened the link between energy use and economic activity, and also to the idea of "decarbonization," which holds that, for similar reasons, every dollar we spend represents a shrinking quantity of greenhouse gas.
As businesses figure out ways around price controls, like charging the same while shrinking the quantities in each package, and as the cost of subsidies may become unsustainably high, inflation may worsen.
Practically any store gets rid of shrink wrap in huge quantities.
But if some books aren't crossing the pond, the quantity and quality of poetry websites makes it easy to think the poetry world is shrinking.
Ms. Fussell, who has found both appetite and wallet shrinking as her age increases (she is 80), goes to dinner only with good company, and like Mr. Rodgers, is not looking for quantity.
The population is shrinking.
The permafrost is shrinking.
Elsewhere, forests are shrinking.
