Sentence examples for before shrinking to 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.

Ta Moan and Ta Krabey, perched on an escarpment about seven miles apart in terrain riddled by land mines, were built in the 12th century when the Khmer empire stretched across parts of Thailand and Vietnam before shrinking to present-day Cambodia.

In most spiders, part of the male's pedipalp swells to deliver sperm before shrinking to normal size.

It reached a similar extent in 2011, before shrinking to its second-smallest size in 2012.

The straits progressively widen to about four miles before shrinking to less than a mile at the Canakale Narrows, between Kephez and Chamak, about fourteen miles in from the entrance.

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.

Even faced with a counterfactual such as "euro-zone austerity is expansionary" (on which there is scant empirical or theoretical support, particularly at the zero bound), it is hard to see how the euro will not weaken dramatically at some point before unravelling or shrinking to a core euro zone of 5-6 countries.

That figure soared to $65 trillion in 2007, before shrinking back to $55 trillion today - a stunning increase over 30 years.

On paper, the project grew to a peak of more than nine million square feet, before shrinking back to the roughly eight million square feet originally planned — a decrease that did little to mollify those residents and officials who said that the project had been far too big and dense from the beginning.

The board adopted the rules just days before it will shrink to two members when the recess appointment of one Democratic member, Craig Becker, expires.