Not only has it shrunk in size but also in importance and in influence.
Since the autumn of 2010 the UK has shrunk in three quarters and grown in two.
Consumers could get whiplash from the way phones and tablets have grown and shrunk in size in recent years.
This means the transistors - or tiny on-off switches that power its processors - can be shrunk in size.
Since 1970, the more higher education has expanded, the more the liberal-arts sector has shrunk in proportion to the whole.
See, that day on my way to set I realized that what I was wearing had shrunk in the wash.
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Domestic HOG dealerships shrunk in number by 6 in the last quarter, but they also opened 5 new dealerships in India.
The San Francisco-based expo, which, like CES, is held in January, has shrunk in the past year since Apple stopped attending it.
But Disney has since sold out of the hockey business, and the Ducks, whose season ticket base has shrunk in recent years, could sure use a basketball partner in the Honda Center.
But when the two drugs were combined in 12 patients with advanced lung cancer, tumors shrunk in 25% of the patients and stabilized in another 40%--much more impressive results than the two drugs produce alone.
Although government spending has shrunk in recent years, the Swedish state is still large (51% of GDP last year), and it spends much more than Anglo-Saxon countries do on everything from early-childhood education to job search and training.
In a similar trial, years ago, Avastin had shrunk tumors in 9% of patients.
According to the report, the number of movies shot in California has shrunk from 272 in 2000 to 160 in 2008.
The hedge-fund industry has already shrunk significantly in the wake of the financial crisis.
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The number of folks in the industry has shrunk 30% in recent years.
It shrunk tumors in 10 of 18 lung cancer patients with a particular gene mutation that occurs in 5% of lung cancers, often in younger nonsmokers.
Openshaw said Francis' whole lung would probably have expanded to fill the space left by the partial one, and that his rib cage would have shrunk slightly in size.
According to CIRP, both the proportion of the latest iPhone relative to older models and the proportion of the 64 GB model relative to cheaper iPhones have shrunk dramatically in a year.
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For years, inflation helped government balance its books, while promising huge sums for this or that, knowing the money would have shrunk, in real terms, by the time the promise was honoured.
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But that club has shrunk, in part because big-budget films these days are sold less on the appeal of an actor than on familiarity with the television programmes, books or comics that so often inspire them.
They will further reduce demand in an economy that has shrunk 25% in five years.
The percentage of film jobs in the U.S. that are located in California has shrunk from 40% in 1997 to 37.4% in 2008.
The number of doctors who are educated in research methods has shrunk as the way in which universities are funded and doctors are trained has changed.
The gap in living standards has shrunk: GDP per person in the east has risen from 40% of west German levels in 1991 to nearly 70% in 2008.
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With the money raised Dow has bought in shares (the number of shares outstanding has shrunk by a fifth in the past five years), bought Eli Lilly's 40% stake in an agricultural chemical joint venture with Dow and bought the Minnesota-based biotechnology firm Mycogen.
With money raised by the sales, Stavropoulos and Dow have bought in shares (the number of shares outstanding has shrunk by a fifth in the past five years), bought Eli Lilly's 40% stake in an agricultural chemical joint venture with Dow, and bought the Minnesota-based biotechnology firm Mycogen.
Apparently, he had been fat, and had only recently, perhaps due to illness, shrunk and caved in.
Its unfunded pension liability has shrunk by half in the past year, due to cash and stock contributions and GM's "de-risking" of its pension investment portfolio.
And because banks shrunk from lending in the midst of the financial crisis, it's been difficult for entrepreneurs to take out the loans they need to start a business.
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