Sentence examples for area has shrunk from inspiring English sources

Because most Dubai residents are expatriates, thousands of them left when their jobs disappeared, and the prospective college-student pool in the area has shrunk substantially.

Dubayy, however, which opened campuses of Michigan State and the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008, thereafter saw its economy crumble, and according to the New York Times, the "prospective college-student pool in the area has shrunk substantially".

Since 1989, the number of insurance industry jobs in the Greater Hartford area has shrunk about 10percentt, from an estimated 54,480 jobs to about 49,000 today, said John Tirinzonie, state labor economist for the Connecticut Labor Department.

One immediate benefit of the rapid pace of the work at the World Trade Center site is that the size of the restricted area has shrunk week by week, so much that now Church Street, which is on the eastern edge of the impact zone, was recently opened again to limited traffic.

Battered by storms and sea-level rise, and deprived of revitalizing sediment from the Mississippi River, its surface area has shrunk by ninety-eight per cent since 1955, and its remaining three hundred and twenty acres can flood in little more than a stiff breeze.

But our view of it has changed, not least as its area has shrunk to but a tiny fraction of what it once was, and now the wilderness atmosphere which heathland undoubtedly engenders – in mid-heath you can occasionally feel you're in somewhere like Russia – is seen as a very attractive contrast to the placid settings of the rest of England's intimate and unthreatening countryside.

The number of Jews in the area had shrunk sharply.

On 3 July 2013, about 123 sq km (47 sq miles) blanketed the mountain; by 9 July 2015, the area had shrunk to 45 sq km.

Nigeria's Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, which flow into Lake Chad's catchment area, have shrunk by two-thirds in the past thirty to forty years, because of dams, irrigation developments, and drought.

By the 1980's the lake area had shrunk by 46percentt; hundreds of thousands of people lived at the mercy of the dikes and the sponge effect was drastically reduced.

The number of jobs in the city's economic sector that includes hotels, restaurants and theaters declined last month, new government statistics show, the first time that payrolls in that area have shrunk from October to November in the nearly two decades that the data has been collected.