ENDS highlighted the steady reduction to the fund in January.
A related development is the steady reduction since the late 20th century in the coverage of traditional or "serious" news topics.
There is even a name for the steady reduction in materials used to make the same goods: "lightweighting".
Osborne is rightly frustrated that some multinationals do billions of pounds of business in the UK but still declare nugatory profits, despite the steady reduction in corporation tax.
In later decades, the pullout of railway lines and the steady reduction of grain elevators meant that jobs and more people moved away.
"That's how it's going all around America," he said, ignoring the steady reduction in the national jobless rate, which dipped to 7.8 percent last month.
The court has put the steady reduction in the pile-up of cases down to the adoption of new working methods under protocol 14 of the European convention on human rights.
The steady reduction in the average length of plays over the following decades can't simply be a matter of degraded attention spans either, since the average length of a movie has been steadily increasing over the same period.
The steady reduction in numbers of active workers (due to the rising proportion of older people) has necessitated the recruitment of a foreign labour force, primarily in the service sector and in menial occupations.
"The steady reduction in family size may be a contributing factor to the observed increase in adult BMI worldwide, not only among men, but also among women," it said.
