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

The deficit is likely to shrink over the next 5 or 10 years because of the higher growth, he added.

As a result, the number of nations shrunk over the decades.

Sea ice cover has been shrinking about 3 percent per decade over the past few decades.

And although the tumor may grow at first, it will shrink over time.

Maintaining its current rate of 230,000 immigrants a year, the country would still shrink by 700,000 over the next 15 years.

The workforce of 12 men in the beginning, though, shrank over time to six.

Income tax revenue shrank over the same period by $3.3 billion.

They were friends, away from their labours here, but those times had seemed to shrink over the years.

Kodak has shrunk by a third, to about 96,000 employees, over the last five years.