The word 'thinning' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used as the present participle form of the verb 'thin', meaning to make something less dense or to cause it to become thinner. Example: "The hairstylist recommended a haircut to help with the thinning of my hair."
Finest, however, is Evie Wyld's All the Birds, Singing (Jonathan Cape), a book so beautifully written, so alive, so nail-bitingly suspenseful, that at points this reader felt as if the oxygen might be thinning.
There are younger members rising up the thinning ranks, but this is promotion by default not merit.
Conservative rhetoric is stuck in fantasy, opposed to any tax increase at any time, while lacking the conviction to propose privatising Social Security and Medicare.By taming inflation, restructuring the tax code, and thinning regulatory undergrowth, Reagan made the welfare state sustainable, something liberals had proved unable to do.
Indeed, thinning the ranks of idle cadres with their fingers in the coffers would ease the financial burden on China's hard-pressed villagers.Shooting for troubleAre such reforms too extensive and costly for a still developing country such as China?
The mid-term elections returned a bevy of ultraconservative tea partiers, while thinning the ranks of moderate Democrats.
Successful forest regeneration requires actions such as maintaining seed trees, thinning harvested stands and more.
The west Antarctic ice sheet, however, is thinning at between 10cm and one metre a year.The satellites also show that this thinning in the west is accompanied by faster movement of the glaciers.
These birds are in our skies only because we want them to be: their successes the result of reintroduction programmes (in the case of the red kite) and a slower, natural recovery following the outlawing of persecution and eggshell-thinning pesticides.
As they do so, their salivary glands secrete hirudin, an anticoagulant so effective that the pharmaceutical industry synthesises it as a blood-thinning agent.
This allowed aspirin to become the most widely used medicine in the world.In recent years its benefits as a blood-thinning drug have led to it being prescribed in low doses of around 50mg to reduce deaths from stroke and heart attack.
It will also be tested in hospitals to show if patients have genetic variations that affect their response to warfarin, a blood-thinning drug.Given the recent discovery that gut bacteria play a role in obesity and can be changed through diet, it seems only a matter of time before firms are offering to sequence them as part of weight-loss programmes.
