Sentence examples for be shrunk by from inspiring English sources

Don't let anyone say it cannot be shrunk by at least 10 percent; there is always room to cut.

Straw also criticised Clegg's plans to announce at the same time that the Commons would be shrunk by 10% to ensure that parliamentary constituencies are of equal size.

With the higher current capacity of superconductors, the size and weight of the motors can be shrunk by half or more.

He announced that Grand Staircase-Escalante would be reduced to roughly half its existing size, and that Bears Ears National Monument, established in the final days of the Obama Administration, would be shrunk by eighty-five per cent.

After years of drawing minuscule crowds while playing in a seventy-five-thousand-person football stadium, the Marlins built a cozy new park — at a capacity of thirty-seven thousand, the third-smallest in the majors — and then found that, with a team this bad, even it needs to be shrunk by another ten thousand seats in order to create the illusion of dynamism.

One engineer who had left industry to join CERN was bemused, recalls Mr Türtscher, when he told his physicist colleagues that a cooling system could not be made any smaller and they had the temerity to ask, "Why?" (On closer inspection it turned out that the device could be shrunk by a fifth).

Arsène Wenger, by comparison, appeared to be shrinking by the second in his suit.

He said Gardiners Island, the largest privately owned island on the East Coast, appeared to be shrinking by up to 2.5 feet a year.

Watch and weep as today's rebels become next year's rationalizers even as his liberal base seems to be shrinking by the way.

Indeed, the total number of ministries has been shrunk by a quarter.

The European Council has been shrunk by the authority of its financial powerhouse, Germany".