less and less

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With both hands, curve the five fingers gently and face the palm up. Place the two hands eye-level and bring it down as you close your five fingers togehter, indicating the quantity or volume reducing.

Example sentence

Everything is gone. Ms. Wu's family started to lose their money and they had to sell their houses. Her family was quite rich in the Baihe District because she was a teacher.
I am very poor but her family was very rich. I come from a poor family but she came from a wealthy family. They had a lot of land but I don't know what happened later on. Her family fell on hard times and they started selling their land one by one until one day they sold them all.

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