| As repression became less overt, the number of arrests dwindled, and with them the number of investigation files. |
| Kelp beds off the coast disappeared, white sea bass numbers dwindled and Dover sole suffered from fin rot. |
| It had slowly dwindled day by day as the news of his accident became old hat. |
| By the 1960s SHD enthusiasm for using convict road gangs was apparently in decline as the system dwindled away to a remnant. |
| But the boom in major breakthroughs in the science of aerodynamics had dwindled. |
| Pedestrian traffic on the boardwalk dwindled in the wintertime, leaving the city's hotels with large blocks of empty rooms. |
