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He found that resource consumption shrank to what it had been originally if divorced couples remarry.

Something the mass of our sun, for instance, could trap light if it shrank into a ball just one and a half miles across.

This turned out to be a year in which the regional economy shrank by 3. 8 per cent or more.

He had noticed in a moment that she shrank from her position, and all his pleasure was gone.

Falling share prices this week shrank the size of a planned equity offering by the Bank of Communications, another lender.

Then, he said, evaporation would slow down as the surface area shrank, and the water level would stabilize.

In almost every case output shrank for the first two or three years of the process.

Mrs. Archer was a shy woman and shrank from society; but she liked to be well-informed as to its doings.

The better than expected performance echoed that of the US economy, which shrank only 0. 3 per cent in the second quarter.

Over the next three decades, the sea shrank to two-fifths its original size, turning fishing villages into barren desert outposts.

I picked it up and went outside. It shrank all its legs so that it could slide away from my palm at any time .

She was frightened and shrank to the corner of the wall, her body shivering.

The total area covered by thicker, older ice that has survived at least one summer shrank by 42 percent.

When President Roosevelt closed America's banks in March 1933 to try to halt a meltdown, the bank's overseas deposit base shrank by just 2%.

She sat on the bank exhaustedly , cried And shrank into herself as a little animal.

No nipple shrank. Conclusion: The self-made orthosis may be one of the effective methods on treating inverted nipples.

That may be why small firms have done relatively worse now than in the 2001 recession, when their payrolls shrank less than at large firms.

She walked into the wholesale district, but as the thought of applying came with each passing concern , her heart shrank.

Under the light microscope, white pulp diminished and shrank, germinal center was not clear and there were a little of apoptosis cell.

At first the column grew rather large but in the last few decades it shrank to only few publications a year.

Its share of the European market shrank: with demand weak, customers were able to switch to cheaper suppliers.

And in other economic news, a report by the Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index shrank by less than expected.

The economy shrank for just one more quarter and then had a robust recovery, growing 63 percent over the next six years.

The economy shrank by a grim 18. 7% year-on-year, but the worst seems to be over and some industries are picking up.

They wanted my kidney, but I shrank before such a sacrifice.

She was inclined to be silent; she shrank from expressing herself even in talk, let alone in writing.

Chambers laid off thousands of employees, shrank the number of suppliers, and simplified or jettisoned many products.

The bank narrowed its third-quarter loss as impairment losses on bad debts shrank.

The U. S. factory sector shrank in April, but at a slower pace, suggesting some stability for manufacturers and the broader economy.

An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said.

And he dreaded that mind: it revolted him: he shrank forebodingly from the idea of committing Isabella to his keeping.

The little boy shrank back with a cry at the sight of a snake.

As the recession struck and then deepened, the size of the U. S. economy shrank.

Its economy shrank for a few months in 2002 and then grew an inflation-adjusted 63 percent in the next six years.

In sector after sector, the story is the same: Even as the total pie of U. S. imports shrank, China amassed a larger piece.

Goldman shrank the size of the revenue pool set aside for compensation during the period, reducing operating expenses.

I shrank into a chair at the far end of the table and listened in silence.

But in two patients the cells stuck it out, and in those two the tumours shrank.

At the sight of me she shrank away and tried to hide her knees under the short dress.

Chinese stocks moved higher, though turnover shrank to its lowest for two months ahead of next week's extended holiday.

The eco-barons' mission, Humes says, became all the more important when Washington shrank from its role as environmental guardian.

The man stood over this tattered figure. He reached down and touched the bum's cheek, but the bum shrank away from him even further.

Before the doctor finished his sentence, Mr. Smith shrank back and fled the office.

Britain grew richer throughout most of the 20th century even as its place in the world shrank.

The researchers found that after a population of humans migrated off the African continent, the group shrank for some unknown reason.

World markets were mixed Tuesday amid confirmation that the U. S. economy shrank in the third quarter of the year.

GDP figures due to be published on August 14th are likely to show that the economy stagnated, or perhaps even shrank, in the second quarter.

By inventing the telephone, he opened the age of telecommunications and shrank the world.

Thus, the outcrops may bear witness to a time when the pools and streams of Meridiani Planum gradually shrank and dried up.

The cells showed morphologic changes at the early stage of apoptosis under the light microscope: the cells shrank and turned round.

The weakness was flagged by the official purchasing managers' index (PMI), which showed factory activity in November shrank from October.

Analysts think the German economy shrank slightly in the first quarter, though the data could surprise them.

As she moved threateningly forward he shrank back from him.

Commission rates were jacked up and , just like banks, operators were overly keen to extend credit to players . Profit margins shrank .

In February, the latest month for which data are available, the trade deficit shrank less than expected.

America's trade deficit shrank for a third consecutive month in November, as exports grew faster than imports.

GDP shrank by almost 6%, the lira collapsed, most of the banks had to be rescued and the IMF was called in (again).

Someone ran across, and for a moment she shrank, fearing that a policeman had heard her words.

I know now that, to prepare to leave me, your hands shrank away.

Only a year after climbing out of recession, the economy shrank again in the final quarter of last year.

Exports to the West did not surge until 2000. The region's current-account surplus actually shrank between 1998 and 2001.

In each case they found that the maladies have become more prevalent during the time in which local biodiversity shrank.

Top-selling Nokia's third-quarter market share shrank to 28. 2 percent from 36. 7 percent a year ago, to its lowest level since 1999.

Third, sales of gold, silver and jewelry kept thriving, but growth rate of sales of home appliances and automobiles shrank.

After Apple's market share shrank to less than 5%, Microsoft's approach was declared the winner in the personal computer realm.

Compared with a year ago, it shrank by 7. 1% in the second quarter.

The U. S. economy shrank in the fourth quarter at the steepest rate since 1982, the Commerce Department said today.

In 12 of the patients - none of whom had responded to other therapies - tumours shrank or stabilised.

The human jaw shrank even faster, making wisdom teeth largely useless and creating the overcrowding that people face today.

Meanwhile the chances of AIG being able to repay the loan also shrank.

"Probably everyone is celebrating New Year's Eve with their loved ones, " said Lisa to herself and she could feel how her heart shrank.

Most economists say the economy probably shrank in the second quarter after a strong performance in the first.

Thailand's automobile sector exports to 190 countries, but sales shrank by up to 40 percent over the past year.

Teeth shrank considerably as agriculture changed our ancestors' diets from mostly meat and plants to mostly carbohydrates.

a sudden rainstorm doused the jacket and shrank one of the sleeves.

Every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh on my bones shrank when he came near.

The event intimidated me, and I shrank into my seat as the grand award prizes were announced.

Trains: China did not only grow this year. It also shrank.

Current account imbalances shrank during the worst of the global recession.

Businesses too had to face enormous challenges as deflation deepened, consumer spending shrank and business activities declined.

He shrank into a corner, I saw him so excited.

During the first four years of the Depression the economy shrank by 27. 5 percent.

The first area I wrapped slowly shrank in cross section right before my eyes as the epoxy warmed the Styrofoam.

Ms Coronado notes that household size shrank over recent decades first as birth rates declined, then as baby boomers' children moved out.

fearing a beating , the dog shrank into a corner.

Japan's economy shrank at its fastest pace for 35 years in the last quarter, with more contractions expected well into this year.

Then Arachne shrank to a little creature no larger than one's thumb.

The Great Communicator lowered taxes, shrank thewelfare state and raised defense spending.

The former have to be worried by the fact that UK broad money (M4) shrank by 1. 1 per cent in the year to July 2011.

The lion shrank to see an elephant.

The opposition, fearing more defeats, twice shrank from tabling further confidence motions.

Many analysts believe the economy shrank in the first three months of this year and could still be ebbing now.

The young woman shrank from having anything to do with the ground - floor serving.

He shrank the state workforce but increased the number of case workers for children.

Even that may be optimistic; in the last quarter of 2008, some economies shrank at annualised rates of over 10%.

Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath.

One by one, each of my classmates shrank slowly back into their seats.

Unemployment rose to its highest point in more than 15 years. Trade shrank.

Then, when the crisis broke, the surpluses of the surplus countries shrank as external demand collapsed.

Julian Callow of Barclays Capital reckons that it shrank by as much as America's in the fourth quarter.

Natasha suddenly, as it were, shrank into herself, and unconsciously assumed a nonchalant air, which repelled Princess Marya more and more.

This was repeated every three weeks until the tumor shrank or the cancer progressed.

Industry also shrank, due to poor competitiveness and direction.

The nation's output of goods and services shrank at a 0. 3% annual rate during the July-September period, as consumers slowed spending.

The economist J. K. Galbraith asserted that fraud rose in a bull market and shrank in a slump.

Davies noted that over time, her patty just shrank and hardened, losing whatever moisture it once contained.

He shrank back, tightly with the money in the pocket.

But in those with diabetes, the hippocampus, the brain's 'memory hub', shrank more quickly than in those without the condition.

The boy shrank into a corner when the bully threatened to beat him.

GDP shrank by 7% in the year to the first quarter. Industrial production has fallen by over a fifth.

As most of the world's big economies withered the following year, the market shrank by more than 6%, a rate of decline not seen for decades.

As the market rallied for a second day, the gap between two- and 10-year Treasury yields shrank to 202 basis points from 210 late on Monday.

In Brazil, government data this week showed that retail sales shrank in August after months of buoyant growth.

Russia has suffered as much as any major economy by the global crisis; its economy shrank by about 9. 5% in the first quarter of this year.

Thanks to "one child, " the size of the labor force aged 20 to 29 shrank by almost 15% in the last decade.

The dominant service sector shrank again in February, but at a slower pace than in previous months.

Some of them shrank back in fear.

A government report that U. S. jobless claims fell in the latest week briefly shrank the Treasury market's best gains.

Taiwan's economy shrank slightly in the second quarter, a far worse performance than expected, as falling demand dragged on exports.

His outstretched arms formed beautiful ebony wings, his torso shrank, forming an avian chest.

The Log File Auto Shrink event class indicates that the log file shrank automatically.

On Thursday, it said its endowment shrank to $26 billion on June 30 from $36. 9 billion a year before.

Earlier this month, China reported that its trade surplus shrank in August from July, as imports picked up.

It wasn't because the Web site's growth slowed this past spring and the number of users shrank in the United States.

Household spending shrank in each of the year's first two quarters.

Asian central banks' foreign exchange reserves shrank by $120bn in October, a fivefold increase on the September fall.

Such regional strategies lost momentum in the 2000s decade as the economy grew and unemployment shrank.

After each desperate effort it shrank with a yell of pain.

She half wanted to her husband. Yet she shrank from him.

Rewritten with aspect-oriented techniques, the code shrank back to 1, 039 lines while retaining most of the performance benefits.

IST shrank the components of big gasification plants found in several American cities.

Unlike her brother, she shrank from publicity, and had always found being Mrs. Thatcher's daughter hard to take.

Their income shrank greatly during the economic crisis.

In the early 1970s and 1980s two groups of physicians described patients whose lymphomas shrank after they came down with measles.

As a result, the tumors shrank significantly, the researchers report online today in Science Translational Medicine.

When the newly trained jugglers stopped practicing, however, these regions shrank back.

It was further proof that Mr Zapatero's political weakness is damaging his ability to pep up an economy that shrank by 3% in the past year.

This cockeyed term, penis cerebri, proved too embarrassing for future scholars and quickly shrank into disuse.

The trade surplus shrank because Chinese exports fell faster than imports.

She notes a 2006 study showing that Americans' circle of confidants shrank by one-third in the previous two decades.

In recent years, because the labor force economical industry fast shrank, the domestic employment market was facing constitutive reforming.

And last quarter, despite a global return to growth, its economy actually shrank.

Gross domestic product shrank for six consecutive quarters, emerging from recession in the final three months of 2009.

Charged so fully with his mission, he shrank from contact with anybody.

The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of 1% in April, May and June.

Emerging market debt spreads against U. S. Treasuries shrank to their narrowest in three years.

Japan's economy shrank by annualized 12. 1% in the last three months of 2008, the biggest contraction among developed countries.

Under Mr Clinton, the number of federal employees shrank by 200, 000 (excluding the armed forces and postal service).

In the middle years of the decade, the private sector ran a large deficit while the government's shrank.

When moist eras visited, they thrived. When the dry times returned, they shrank or collapsed.

At the same time, the snake's intestine expanded, its gall bladder shrank and its heart increased in volume by 25 per cent.

And their prostates shrank, an undesirable side effect.

The economy performed less badly than expected in the first quarter: GDP shrank by only 0. 8% compared with the last three months of 2008.

The shrewd shipper's remark shed light on why he shrank and shifted duties onto others.

The employment measure, known as "non-farm payroll" , shrank by 322, 000 in May.

The wheat-rick shrank lower, and the straw-rick grew higher, and the corn-sacks were carted away.

But in January, banks shrank mortgage bond holdings by $26 billion, Barclays Capital said.

Railroads, Britain's gift to the world, shrank continents and slashed travel time.

A painful contraction, but not in the same league as the famous 1979 drought, when India's economy shrank more than 5 per cent.

The copy machine shrank the size of the print.

Its economy shrank at an annualised rate of nearly 13% in the last quarter of 2008, according to figures released on Monday February 16th.

As exporters suffered and reduced investment, capital spending shrank, pushing growth down by another 1. 6 percentage points.

The dog shrank back in fear.

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

Yesterday we learned that our economy shrank by nearly 4 percent from October through December.

That shrank the vital ice e too is coming under huge strains. bridge to just 984 yards at its narrowest location.

He kept his seat, and shrank closer to the fire.

Some regions shrank as much as 25% by 80 years of age.

Over 2008 as a whole, the British economy shrank by 0. 7%.

The economy shrank in the third quarter, too, and is forecast to contract further.

The global market for luxury goods shrank by as much as 13% in 2009, say some estimates, but high-end goods are flourishing in Poland.

America's economy may be just entering recession; between 1929 and 1933 it shrank by more than a quarter.

Revised growth figures yesterday showed that Japan's economy shrank by 1. 2 per cent on an annualised basis in the three months to June.

He shrank from the thought of having to kill anyone.

The central European economies shrank by an average of 3. 6% in 2009, and the World Bank expects them to grow by a measly 1. 6% this year.

The other 40 cents disappeared as other segments of the economy shrank.

After treatment with gemcitabine and CD40 antibody, the tumors shrank in 30% of the animals.

This meant that inventories shrank.

The effect on global commerce was devastating. In the three years to June 1932, the volume of world trade shrank by over a quarter.

Your laundry service shrank my sweater!

It's a pity that the sweater you sent back shrank badly.

Few will recall that it was also the last year in which the volume of world trade shrank.

In contrast, the country's trade surplus shrank to Y4, 044bn, largely because of higher import costs. This was the lowest level since 1985.

The company's profit margins shrank from 32. 5% to 17%.

The figure shrank farther away. "Never is too large a word, my child. "

Lenovo's quarterly profit shrank 78 percent in the three months ended Sept. 30. as the global economic slowdown battered sales.

Frightened, she shrank down into her seat.

Bythe new calculations, estimates of the overall size of the Chineseeconomy also shrank by 40 percent.

Its deficit with China alone shrank slightly to $27. 8 billion, but was still near record-highs.

It has already been reported that eurozone retail sales shrank by 0. 7% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter.

After all, from 2002-2004, loans to non-financial companies in the US shrank at an annual rate of more than 5 per cent.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says worldwide FDI inflows shrank 21% in 2008 to $1. 4 trillion.

This is what has happened in the current financial year, when key deficit totals grew rather than shrank.

That shrank the vital ice bridge to just 984 yards at its narrowest location.

After the crash in 1929 America's economy shrank by a quarter and the unemployment rate hit 25%.

For a more recent example, the economy shrank by 1. 9 percent in 1982.

The IL2 treatment itself wasn't very effective either; it shrank tumors in only 10% of patients.

It shrank too much. Now it's too small to wear.

Exports - a key component in the economy - shrank 26 percent.

In 2010, as other European economies grew again, Spain's shrank.

Shrank will only make one more injured.

Its staff shrank under George Bush.

I shrank from disturbing him again.

He shrank from admitting his guilt.

The economy shrank by five per cent this year.

And some economists predict that figures published on November 14th will show that the economy actually shrank in the third quarter.

The world's largest economy shrank at an annual rate of 1% in the second quarter.

JAPAN'S economy probably shrank by over 10% (at an annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2008.

And thanks to its huge domestic stimulus China added to global demand last year, as its current-account surplus shrank sharply.

The man grasped the boy's chin and turned his face slowly from one side to the other. The boy shrank back uneasily.

The economies of Spain, Italy and Britain all shrank in the third quarter.

Globally, the total shrank by 9 per cent to $38. 12bn.

The hot water shrank my pullover.

Indeed, reserves were used up during this crisis: they shrank by $472bn between July 2008 and February 2009.

Tumors shrank more than 30% in 57% of the patients.

The region's current-account surplus actually shrank between 1998 and 2001.

The dough shrank slowly in the cold air.

Between 2005 and 2009 Germany's share of world exports grew, whereas France's shrank.

The US trade deficit shrank by 10% month-on-month in June.

The hot water shrank my sweater.

As the economy stalled in 2009, the global consulting industry shrank by 9. 1%.

Figures released on Thursday October 30th showed that America's economy shrank at an annualised rate of 0. 3% in the third quarter.

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Many wealthier economies shrank during the global financial crisis, but Brazil grew 5 per cent, rising to 7. 5 per cent in 2010.

This time, a pant leg shrank.

Gross domestic product shrank 3. 3 per cent in the last three months of 2008, the largest fall in 35 years.

shrink The dress shrank when I washed it.

In 2008, the British economy shrank by 0. 7%.

The economy shrank by 6. 2% during the recession.

German manufacturing shrank in October, according to the purchasing managers' index, and unemployment rose for the first time in 18 months.

Economists estimate nonfarm payrolls shrank for the 20th consecutive month, shedding 233, 000 jobs on top of the 247, 000 lost in July.

The Greek economy shrank 5. 5 percent over the past year under the weight of austerity measures and punishingly high interest rates.

Manufacturing output in America in June shrank at its slowest pace for ten months, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

In 1980, the U. S. was in recession, and the economy shrank 0. 3% in real terms (that is, after taking out the effect of inflation).

The CPB reckons that volumes shrank by a staggering 13. 2% during 2009.

In 2008, the economy shrank 0. 3%, rather than holding flat, as earlier estimated.

The economy shrank 1 per cent in the third quarter, its first contraction in five years.

I washed these pants and they shrank, so my son could hardly walk.

At a stroke, the Chinese economy shrank, in real terms, by 40%.

woolly shrank because it was washed badly.

The woolly shrank because it was washed badly.

Its GDP shrank 6% in 2010 and 7. 3% in the second quarter of this year -- far worse than anyone imagined.

In the last quarter of 2009 year-on-year GDP shrank by 0. 8%.

He shrank with cold.

From 1929 to 1933, the American economy shrank by 46 percent.

The original 6 cm's tumor shrank to the current 3 cm in diameter.

In 2008 the median size of a new home shrank for the first time in 13 years.

In 1998, the worst year, the economy shrank by 2%.

China's export volume shrank 16% in 2009, and some 23 million migrant workers lost their jobs in the downturn.

But Brazil's stagnated and Russia's shrank by 7. 9 per cent.