It topped 67 percent in 2000 and has been shrinking for four years.

The middle class is small; it has been shrinking for a generation.

World trade flows are shrinking for the first time in two decades.

The company has been shrinking for the last few months.

The gap between the two cities has been shrinking for decades.

The government had already reported that the economy shrank over the summer, for the first time in eight years.

Analysts had expected a 2 percent rate of increase in the quarter, when the economy shrank for the first time since 1993.

And so the network has begun to shrink again for the first time since the 1990's.

It is a fact that the European budget has been shrinking for decades.

The rifugio seemed to be shrinking into itself for the night.