1.   First, deaths from the early-year cold snap depleted their numbers.

2.   Gibbons are easy prey for people and dogs when they try to cross farms, she added, and an illegal pet trade further depletes their numbers.

3.   Their numbers have been depleted over the years by imprisonment and fratricide.

4.   There were also signs that the vaccine depleted the number of T-cells involved in attacking the myelin.

5.   Rampant crime has prompted the mayor of Vlora to request joint patrols of the multinational force and local police, whose numbers have been depleted by the chaos.

6.   That restriction could deplete the number of donors in New York, since the city is densely populated with immigrants and people who travel abroad for business.

7.   Their thinning numbers were seriously depleted last year after a large faction within the movement defected to seek peace with the government.