This risk diminished three to four years after the initial attack.

This risk is particularly high in younger patients and gradually diminishes with age.

So the risk from viruses certainly hasn't diminished - on the contrary, it has mushroomed.

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

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

But has the risk of a Japanese-style downward price spiral actually diminished?

This way the risks diminished and the opportunities to accumulate capital increased.

As time goes on and the risk diminishes for those families they may take on more cases.

Their opinion is that the risk diminishes over time.

Those risks will naturally diminish with time and experience.