Some still receive city money to create new housing, though on a vastly diminished scale.

Many people believe they might opt for suicide rather than endure a vastly diminished quality of life.

The fact that the empire's troops now outnumbered their own vastly diminished armies had not yet occurred to anyone.

Eight months into the Chinese government crackdown, the group is vastly diminished but not utterly defeated.

The bishop's authority was vastly diminished by the plea agreement.

It only took four years, a series of huge failures and a vastly diminished set of expectations.

In the information age, the power of both groups has vastly diminished.

The result, she said, is a distracted population with vastly diminished ambitions.

Even if they had, I strongly suspect the numbers of rioters aged under 18 would have vastly diminished.

There were still people here, but in vastly diminished numbers.