21.   Pharmacists tell me that quinine sulfate is still available over-the-counter, but that supplies are dwindling because the manufacturers temporarily stopped producing it.

22.   Prices of consumer goods delivered by rail could also rise if the congestion causes supplies to dwindle.

23.   Supplies dwindled further as power companies in neighboring states exported less electricity to California.

24.   Supplies then dwindle during the summer months.

25.   Supplies have dwindled in recent years as world coffee consumption has risen.

26.   Supplies have dwindled in recent years because of an industry shift toward leaner inventories, said Chuck Levitt, livestock analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago.

27.   Supplies will dwindle faster, sucked up by cities that sprouted with little regard to water availability.

28.   U.S. corn supplies are dwindling faster than expected, and farmers are planting more this year to meet strong demand, the government said.

29.   U.S. grain supplies are dwindling more quickly than expected as demand from overseas, especially from China, continues to grow.

30.   Virtually every store in the capital has been emptied by looters, and the embassy said its food supplies were dwindling rapidly.