1.   After the crowd has thinned, after the little girls have been dragged off by their parents, Jess walks upstairs.

2.   The crowd thinning around them, the wind that blew dust and papers past could not interrupt their looking at each other.

3.   By midnight the crowd had thinned.

4.   The crowd had thinned, and the day was coming to an end.

5.   And at other museums, the crowds thinned to manageable size.

6.   As the crowd thinned, I noticed my children, Jack and Hadley, huddled in a corner with Geoff and Diana.

7.   But the crowd is thinning.

8.   But these days, President Hugo Chavez is speaking less and less, curtailing his once spontaneous speeches as the crowds have thinned.

9.   By one in the morning, the crowd had thinned to a small group who sat plotting its next move.

10.   By the time the U.S. Army Band marched past at the head of the parade, the crowd had thinned considerably.