41.   Municipal bonds rose, tracking Treasuries, as investors moved to lock in higher returns amid a dwindling number of new tax-exempt securities, traders said.

42.   Municipal bonds rose as some individual investors moved to lock in higher returns amid a dwindling number of new tax-exempt securities.

43.   Municipal bonds fell less than benchmark U.S. Treasuries as investors snapped up a dwindling number of new tax-exempt securities, traders said.

44.   Now, analysts say, Hughes is the most likely of a handful of missile makers to survive as a dwindling number of contracts forces further consolidations.

45.   Now, facing financial uncertainty because of a dwindling number of visitors in the winter, expansion plans are under way again.

46.   Once the church where Henry Ward Beecher preached against slavery, Plymouth Church is now one of a dwindling number of Congregational churches in New York.

47.   Or, in my case, to visit the dwindling number of friends and relatives still living in their comfortable but too-close-together bungalows.

48.   Several other big banks, including Chase Manhattan Banking Corp., are eyeing the dwindling number of brokerage firms.

49.   Some congregations endure despite their dwindling numbers.

50.   Some advocates for immigrants who are also seeing a dwindling number of applications attribute the drop to the long wait that most applicants must face.