In other words, despite these huge investments, renewables' share of the energy market has been shrinking.
Although judges have reduced the most outrageous awards, the extent of reductions has been shrinking.
Bank credit to businesses has been shrinking for more than two years (see chart).
Spending on homeopathy in the English NHS has been shrinking, with many funders withdrawing NHS cash altogether.
Middlesbrough's population, now 145, 000, has been shrinking by about 500 a year for the past three decades.
The country's economy has been shrinking all year - its fourth recession of the past 10 years.
For the last 15 years, as prices for young horses have risen, the thoroughbred gene pool has been shrinking.
This deepens Russia's demographic decline, in which the population of 142m has been shrinking by up to 700, 000 a year.
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In a time when the venture capital industry has been shrinking, firms need to show how they differentiate from the rest.
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The availability of mortgages has been shrinking during the credit crunch - a situation made clear to Greg Crosby, of Basingstoke in Hampshire.
In his excellent 2002 book Media Unlimited, Todd Gitlin noted that sentence length in newspapers, and attention in general, has been shrinking for decades.
Manufacturing may also have potential, although it would be starting from a much lower base - only 6% of GDP - and has been shrinking up until now.
Federal funding for university research also has been shrinking, adjusted for inflation, while such funding in other countries like China, Japan and South Korea has grown.
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While still the No. 1 show by a sizable margin, Idol viewership has been shrinking since its peak in 2005, when it averaged 30 million weekly viewers.
Hours worked per person has been shrinking because the boomers are retiring, and significant numbers of working-class males are dropping out of workforce as their jobs disappear.
However since 1960 the US industrial capacity has been shrinking.
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The Bush presidency has been shrinking ever since his second-term agenda (primarily Social Security reform) collapsed in Congress and his remaining credibility was blown away in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.
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Its gift and estate tax audit force has been shrinking, even as the number of taxable estates has more than doubled -- to an expected 45, 000 in 1998 from 19, 000 ten years ago.
"I can't see any way Sony can possibly achieve that kind of number, especially since its business has been shrinking, " said David Rubenstein, senior technology analyst at Religare Global Asset Management Japan.
Climate scientists have been intrigued by observations that Antarctic sea ice shows a small but statistically significant expansion of about 1.9% per decade since 1985, while sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking over past decades.
At Search Bank, a Beijing employment agency, Hai Yuen points out that, whereas the value of compensation packages for expat executives has been shrinking over the past ten years, the number of Chinese-speaking foreigners she handles has been rising.
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Mr. Martin said that going into a "new line of business" was the "next logical step" for the housing group at a time when its traditional role of helping build housing has been shrinking along with funding for government housing programs.
The share of Britain's GDP accounted for by financial services, including the retail kind such as arranging mortgages, has been steadily shrinking since 2007.
If storage has been methodically shrinking and gas production continues to grow, albeit at a much slower pace, it must mean there has been activity on the demand side of the ledger.
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