shrink from

Still, Takano, whose nursing staff has shrunk from 80 to 30, refuses to leave.

It was put into office to pass the measures that the politicians had shrunk from.

This was what Linden had hitherto shrunk from doing, but the situation was desperate.

McCain's advantage on leadership shrunk from 19 points in September to just five points this weekend.

I have long shrunk from children, because they often show a distrust- a backwardness to be familiar with me.

China's current account surplus has already shrunk from close to 11 per cent of output in 2007 to about 5 per cent.

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.

While domestic passengers have almost exactly doubled since its interims in 2007, international passengers have shrunk from 3. 5m to 3. 1m.

According to the report, the number of movies shot in California has shrunk from 272 in 2000 to 160 in 2008.

The Florida trophy fish have shrunk from an average size of 20kg to just 2. 3kg in only 50 years.

Their number has shrunk from over 1, 000 to fewer than 200.

The increase in China's working population has shrunk from 10 million to 3 million per year and will be negative by 2018, if not sooner.

Its workforce has shrunk from a peak of 5, 400 before 2001 to 3, 800 today.

the lookout towers are gone , and the wall has shrunk from 16 feet high to under 7 feet

The write-off of large numbers of planes (its fleet shrunk from 275 in 2007 to 215 last year) has slashed depreciation costs;