Sentence examples for before shrinking from inspiring English sources

It had ticked slightly over 50 in May before shrinking to 49.7 in June.

In the same period, the spread between Italian and German 10-year bonds widened to 3.75 percentage points before shrinking to 2.85 points.

Starting with the 17 interrogation techniques approved in a standard Army manual, commanders at the Guantánamo prison doubled the permitted methods by late 2002, before shrinking the list.

Many of the programs predate Proposition 209, but in the years after the ban took effect the University of California system's spending on them jumped to $85 million from $18 million, before shrinking again in the last decade.

Thus the population of Clark County, the area around Las Vegas, quadrupled between the 1980s and 2008 (before shrinking slightly in 2009), as people from southern California, in particular, fled overpriced houses and moved to Las Vegas.

Businesspeople in Dubai, and lawyers who handled cases, say this figure was very likely exceeded as the property boom took off, before shrinking at the onset of the financial crisis in October 2008, as property prices collapsed.

The number of people on the planet who have never seen a film before is shrinking.

In successive polls since Christmas, an economic lead of 21 points has fallen in sequence to 18, 17 and 13 before now shrinking to nine.

With Arctic warming, barren-ground grizzlies are venturing farther north than ever before while shrinking sea-ice habitat is forcing polar bears onto land.

T16C appeared to grow before rapidly shrinking.

The bulbous ending forms rapidly through expansion from a stick-like ending, and stalls on the contacted neuronal soma for several minutes before gradually shrinking back again.