That's why the KMT's wide lead has apparently shrunk in the last week.
In 1856, in preparation for another voyage, he applied for a new passport and sent in a new set of measurements; in the intervening seven years, he had apparently shrunk.
It is unclear why Apple is apparently shrinking the battery size, but it might be because the new phones need to pack in more components and so there is less space.
The People's Alliance of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, whose job was not at stake, remains the largest grouping, though its share of the 225-seat parliament has apparently shrunk slightly.
So we learn that Helmand province in Afghanistan is "four times the size of Wales Daily Telegraphph, 2 December 2009) only to find a few weeks later that it has apparently shrunk to "the size of Wales Daily Telegraphph, 29 January 2010).
These days, mindful of an apparently shrinking readership for music magazines, and long since alerted to the importance of "branding", the NME is a much more market-savvy publication, built around a fraction of the words it used to contain (it also has its own TV channel, and online radio station).
But there's more to be concerned about than the apparently shrinking size of the science-writing work force.
China, growing in most aspects, is apparently shrinking here.
It is the classic E30 body and I think it remains the ultimate family car (although as your kids get older the back seat apparently shrinks).
Imagine an alternative, kaleidoscopic perceptual world in which everything seems to change, solid objects apparently swelling, shrinking, and warping with every movement.
Ever since Microsoft distressed its desktop Windows OEMs by unveiling its own-brand tablet PC, called Surface, the logical leap required to imagine an own-brand Windows Phone has apparently been shrinking.
