And one after the other they either shrank or folded.

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By his count, on average the gap between where stock prices began and where Applied Finance figured they should be shrank 15% to 30% a year from 1998 to 2005.

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Since their boots shrank when they dried, troopers had to keep them on at night.

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Their spleens shrank dramatically, and they regained appetite and energy.

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Those who say they would like to help promote racial understanding shrank from a high of 42% in 1992 to 32% in 1997.

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As the figure below shows, the difference between the percent of owners saying loans were more available and the share saying they were less available over the previous three months shrank from -16 in May of 2009 to -8 in March of 2011.

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They won in the end when America's sheep industry shrank dramatically after the second world war.

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Of this group, 42 percent say they'll have to delay retirement because their nest eggs shrank.

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Before the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels were around 280 ppm, and they were closer to 200 during the Ice Age, which is when sea levels shrank and polar places went from green to icy.

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And over the last decade, the manufacturing workforce shrank by 33 percent, leaving millions of skilled, hardworking Americans sitting as idle as the plants that they once worked in.

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