Preposition: into

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

Object

• 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.

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 " .

Modifying Another Word

• considerably: Academic attention to this issue, however, has considerably dwindled.

• 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.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: With this beam dwindling slowly in my rear view mirror at the weekend, I drove off to find the World Cup.

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.