11.   But if the ranks of the protesters were thinned, so were the ranks of the entrepreneurs.

12.   But the recent industry downturn is thinning their ranks.

13.   Illness, wounds, and absenteeism also thinned the ranks.

14.   Its ranks were thinned this year when three nuns died.

15.   Medicine, as disease is as likely to thin their ranks as anything fired off by the enemy.

16.   No one likes deadbeat dads, but social stigma has done nothing to thin their ranks.

17.   No Luddite, Fried accepted the coming of quartz watches, even though they thinned the ranks of his own calling.

18.   Outside, the viewing ranks thinned as rain began to fall.

19.   Should that happen, Southern lawmakers could well see their ranks thinned in terms of leadership posts and committee chairmanships.

20.   That further liberates manufacturers by thinning the ranks of lawyers who are financially able and motivated to bring lawsuits.