The army has to shrink by 20,000 within eight years.

The economy is expected to shrink by 8 percent this year.

The size of the mission will shrink by half, to about 30.

"They think this will shrink the market by 90 percent."

Already, the military is shrinking by 100,000 troops a year.

During the same time, the economy shrank by 14 percent.

We expect the market to shrink by 30pc, down to less than 2m cars per year.

The economy has shrunk by 50% from 2000 to 2007.

Its work force has shrunk by more than a third, to 1,000.

But over all, the Army still shrank by 42,000 men and women, to a total of 568,000.