That has led to concerns that the number of Singaporeans may shrink in the coming years.
We watch the red grow and shrink in the atlases as the British Empire expands and recedes.
Vacancies continued to shrink in the first half of the year, as companies adjusted to falling demand.
Corporate entertainment budgets may shrink in the wake of the scandals, but many observers are pessimistic about more wholesale changes.
Earlier research showed that the neurons shrink in the hippocampus, and that seems to impair memory in response to stress, he said.
The OECD said the eurozone would shrink in the fourth quarter by 1%, and by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2012.
If so, China's trade surplus will shrink in 2009 and, for the first time in years, become a drag on GDP growth.
Indeed, some expect it to shrink in the last three months of 2012 - though the average forecast is for modest growth.
The global pharmaceutical market, measured in dollars, will shrink in 2009 for the first time in 25 years, according to a new report.
Glimpse Brunelleschi's dome from the narrow streets of Florence and suddenly the behemoths of 20th-century architecture--the Sears Tower, the World Trade Center--shrink in importance.
It predicts that Spain and Italy - as well as Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Cyprus, the Netherlands and Slovenia - will all shrink in 2012.
These exploit the fact that gravitational waves should cause space to stretch in one direction and shrink in the dimension at right angles to it.
The euro-area economy will shrink in back-to-back years for the first time, driving unemployment higher as governments, consumers and companies curb spending, the European Commission said.
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If the economy was to shrink in the first three months of 2013, then the UK would re-enter recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction.
Though the euro zone's economy continued to shrink in January, it did so at a slower pace than in recent months, the Eurocoin indicator of activity indicated.
But it is faster than any major economy across the Channel - the eurozone is collectively expected to shrink in 2013, with little or no growth even in 2014.
Taken together, these and other recent data suggest the Eurozone will shrink in the second quarter, having only very narrowly avoided a negative figure for the first three months of 2012.
That has led to concerns that the number of Singaporeans may shrink in the coming years, and the government warned that it does not expect the situation to improve in the near future.
Pay attention to the market trends for the companies in your portfolio and make sure that they have strong, effective responses to market shrinkage or product commoditization or your investment is ultimately what will shrink in value.
Historically, most drugs in this patient population only shrink tumors in only 30% of patients.
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But Allison showed in 1996 that he could shrink tumors in mice by injecting them with antibodies to CTLA-4.
The eurozone economy shrank by 0.1% in the third quarter of the year and is forecast to shrink again in the current quarter as downturns in the services and manufacturing sectors look set to continue.
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Chemotherapy and other treatments only shrink tumors in 10 to 15 percent of cases.
It is also common to see Labor Day leads shrink dramatically in presidential races or even disappear.
If its currency weakens for once, consumer spending power could shrink, in theory, and that could help inflation there, too.
When combined with Camptosar, Erbitux helps shrink tumors in about 23% of these patients for a median of four months.
The range of electric car batteries is known to shrink sometimes in cold weather, as industry experts have discovered.
It helps explain why tumors shrink dramatically in a minority of patients who get the drug while most others get little benefit.
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