1.   The first is that the risk of insolvency diminishes with increased size.

2.   Their opinion is that the risk diminishes over time.

3.   And over the past few years, the size of those spreads has gradually diminished, a sign that investors think the risk is also diminishing.

4.   But the risk has diminished to the point that it is now possible to eat fugu absentmindedly.

5.   Neither broad social trends nor demographic details suggest that the risks will diminish in the immediate future.

6.   The risks have diminished significantly as the industry declined because of the recession and the end of the Cold War.

7.   As with obesity, the risk diminished the longer breast-feeding continued into childhood.