The 2011 trade surplus narrowed to $155bn from $182bn in 2010.

The current $133 weekly gap has narrowed from $260 in 1979.

The base narrowed from the shoulder, but it still sat flat.

For the year, Ford's net loss was narrowed to $980 million from $5.45 billion in 2001.

For the first nine months of 1991, it narrowed its losses to $128,000, from $730,000 a year earlier.

As a result the "achievement gap" between black and white 9-year-old students narrowed to 26 points over those five years from 35.

IN the past 10 years, design books have been narrowing their focus, from countries to regions to cities.

Two rounds of contract talks have narrowed the field from 10 companies to 4 and now to 3.

The leg parts were kept far below the knee and narrowed from there.

The network narrowed its options from a list of more than 20 development schemes.