Sentence examples for an overall shrinking from inspiring English sources

Fresh GDP figures suggest an overall shrinking of 0.1% this year.

I believe the top firms in any industry will continue to thrive for decades to come, but there will be an overall shrinking of the bottom and middle tiers of firms as they yield to well-run marketplaces.

A United bankruptcy filing would also portend a further overall shrinking of flights and capacity, probably including reduced service to regional markets.

During the sputtering, a part of the surface with the pristine catalyst is also removed from the edges of the walls, causing overall shrinking of the patterns.

When Sao Paulo banned outdoor media, Biruta cleverly got around it by projecting billboards on walls, growing its business while an overall market shrank.

In all, they found, the number of ponds had shrunk by at least 17% since 1948 and had overall shrunk in size by about 30%.

Prime Minister Zhu Rongji has vowed to cut the number of township officials by 70percentt as part of an overall effort to shrink China's bloated bureaucracy.

So if they took the risk of launching a new broadcast network in 1995 -- when the network TV audience overall was shrinking -- then they must have a pretty good idea of who that audience is and what it wants.

Overall, however, shrinking rainfall may also entrench poverty in areas where most people live off subsistence farming.

G.M.'s sales in the 27 nations of the European Union last year dropped 2 percent, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Associationn, while the overall market shrank 1.7 percent, a fourth consecutive year of decline.

If defense and homeland security are excluded, however, the overall rise shrinks to a mere 0.5%.