dwindle

Object

• congregation: The bad comes at Bodmin Methodist Church, where the aging and dwindling congregation faced a similar problem with a huge historic building.
• stock: I was going out with a dwindling stock of friends at the time.
• reserve: Dwindling reserves British Gas, which is part of the Centrica group, warned in June that prices may have to rise.
• supply: Colin rations out the dwindling tinny supply in a non stopping fashion!
• attendance: But on the subject of the Bluebirds ' dwindling attendances he admits he does not have all the answers.
• population: Introductions are not the solution to dwindling butterfly populations.

Preposition: at

rate: The customer base which is dwindling at a fast rate.

Preposition: over

year: The UKCA members support has dwindled over the last year.

Preposition: into

insignificance: Compared with rolling back these unacceptable aspects of New Labor, most other policy problems dwindle into insignificance.

Modifying Another Word

• rapidly: In addition, it had used up a large proportion of Germany's rapidly dwindling fuel reserves.
• steadily: A steadily dwindling minority still speak Spanish, which had at one time been an official language.
• gradually: The parent group gradually dwindled away in a series of obscure splits.
• considerably: Academic attention to this issue, however, has considerably dwindled.
• slowly: With this beam dwindling slowly in my rear view mirror at the weekend, I drove off to find the World Cup.
• away: All things German dwindled away during the two world wars.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: The large majority with which they started has dwindled down to a measuring cast.
• away: The parent group gradually dwindled away in a series of obscure splits.

Used with why or when

when: But his support began to dwindle when his discourse became more left-leaning and he began attacking what he calls the " rancid oligarchy " .

Preposition: in

• number: In the autumn of 1996, 1 belonged to a small drama group that had dwindled in numbers to just seven people.
• year: But his shock arrest in London emboldened many of his countrymen and his support dwindled in subsequent years.