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Example sentences for: shrank

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In South America, El Niño destroys the fishing industry: Peru's economy shrank 5 percent during the '82-'83 El Niño.
For individuals, 14 brackets and a top rate of 50 percent shrank into three brackets and a top rate of 28 percent.
These discoveries resulted in the theory of models, the clothing worn by whom gradually shrank to zero, thereby enabling Abe Robinson to prove the existence of infinitesimals, with predictable consequences in the physiognomy of certain members of the audience.
But those price increases ultimately provoked two predictable responses: Demand for oil shrank, as consumers looked for substitutable sources of energy; and, more importantly, the search for oil expanded.
Marriage outside the community used to be forbidden, and the population shrank.