Mr Ozawa could soon find himself presiding over a party that has shrivelled to barely a third of its original size.

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Despite its plush positioning behind the final season of Lost (No. 8 on the list), V has lured an audience about a third of its original size.

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After being readmitted on 17 February 2012, Mr Golby underwent a chest X-ray which solicitors said revealed the cancer on his lung had grown to five times its original size.

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Extrapolating from this result, Dr Mileikowsky thinks that in a meteorite with a diameter of 20cm it would take about 1m years for such a colony to be reduced to a millionth of its original size.

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Take the 3D sensor inside the Microsoft Kinect, shrink it down to a tenth of its original size and add a bunch of mobile capabilities, and you have yourself PrimeSense's latest conquest, better known as Capri.

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Others are saying that we should be buying oil to bring the SPR up to its original planned size of one billion barrels.

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His company, which now employs 18 people, recently moved into a 65, 000-square-foot warehouse, ten times the size of its original facility.

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By adjusting its overall shipments and the volume of each unit (iPad Mini sales are now expected to outpace the full-size model), Apple is sending the message that its original stance toward seven-inch tablets was dead wrong.

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