For example, between 1880 and 1900, the monetary base in Italy actually shrank by 4.8%.
Its figures show the economy shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012.
Oklahoma's list of schools that "need improvement" shrank by 85 percent in a year.
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 1.3% in 2012, according to its central bank.
Over the last 10 years, the number of people working in manufacturing shrank by a third.
During the nine months to the end of September, the economy shrank by 6.4%.
Tumor size shrank by 50% in 19% of patients who failed to respond to traditional chemotherapy.
Its economy shrank by 7% in the year to the fourth quarter of 2011.
The UK economy shrank by less than previously thought between April and June, official figures have shown.
In 2001-02 the economy shrank by 15%, unemployment climbed to 21% and poverty engulfed 56% of Argentines.
After years of growing enrollment, the freshman class this year shrank by nearly 10%, to 525 students.
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The most recent figures show its economy shrank by 6.2% in the second quarter of the year.
In Sichuan province, WWF says, suitable habitat occupied by pandas shrank by 50% between 1974 and 1989.
Indonesia's economy shrank by 14% last year, and output may fall by a further 4% this year.
The federal work force shrank by 5, 000, while local governments cut back by 6, 000, mostly in education.
But the ONS said the revision would have no significant impact on fourth-quarter GDP, which shrank by 0.3%.
It said the numbers suggested the UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the final three months of 2012.
Syria's population is growing at more than 3% per year, and last year the economy shrank by 1.5%.
The economy of the 17 nations in the euro shrank by 0.6% in the fourth quarter, which was worse than forecast.
Meanwhile, payrolls shrank by 4.5 million between December 2005 and December 2010, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Analysts now believe that initial estimates that the economy shrank by 0.7% in the April-to-June quarter are overly pessimistic.
Within production, manufacturing shrank by 0.5%, although food and drink grew by 0.3%.
The Italian economy shrank by 0.8% between April and June, slightly more than previously estimated, official figures have shown.
In a matter of days equity values shrank by several hundred billion dollars.
In three years Carleton's full-time roll shrank by 3, 000 to 13, 740 in 1996.
The trigger for declines came with news that U.S. GDP shrank by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of last year.
Real output shrank by 3.7%, the deepest decline of any postwar recession (a record shared with the downturn of 1957).
The economy shrank by 1.3% between January and March this year, the second quarter in a row it has declined.
Last month, Singapore's ministry of trade said the country's economy shrank by more than 4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Industrial production, for example, actually shrank by 0.6% from May 2012 to June 2012, as did the overall volume of paid services.
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