1.   A declining number of people continued to sew shoes by hand in their cottages or little workshops right until the end of the nineteenth century.

2.   Seabird colonies in the Shetland Isles are recording significant breeding successes after a number of years of declining numbers.

3.   Although the Archdiocese of Atlanta has a healthy crop of priests and seminarians, elsewhere in the country the church is suffering from a declining number of clergy.

4.   Another factor is the declining number of routine inpatient hospital beds, making it more difficult for emergency room doctors to get all but their most urgent patients admitted.

5.   After years of declining numbers, the population of homeless adults is rising again in New York City shelters.

6.   Canal Plus, like other pay-for-view ventures in Europe, has been crippled by rising program costs and a declining number of subscribers.

7.   Caputo is one of a declining number of Italian immigrants who harvest suburban parkways, railroad tracks, ball fields and open spaces each spring.

8.   Dymo, which is now part of the Swedish office supply conglomerate Esselte, continues to sell embossed-tape labeling machines, though in declining numbers.

9.   Enrollment remains lower than it was a decade ago, which some experts attribute in part to the declining number of high school graduates in Massachusetts.

10.   Everything from year round racing to souped-up racetracks and rich race purses for still developing horses have also contributed to the declining number of starts for racehorses.