Sentence examples for but actually shrank from inspiring English sources

When the 18th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party appointed the country's new leaders last month, the number of women in top positions not only failed to grow, but actually shrank.

And just to clarify, upward revisions to those categories do not mean that all those categories; most of them did, but government actually shrank.

The incomes of the 1 percent grew more than 11 percent between 2009 and 2011, but the incomes of the 99 percent actually shrank.

Demand still grew fastest for skilled workers and more slowly for less-skilled workers, but the share of employment in the middle actually shrank.

They also have seen signs that the brain had been growing normally, but that growth was disrupted and the brain actually shrank.

The economy actually shrank as recently as the first quarter of this year but that was largely put down to a particularly harsh winter and GDP bounced back in the second quarter.

Sales of its factory equipment actually shrank in each of the four financial years through Sept. 2002, but the company was profitable in the final 12 months of that span.

Income actually shrank for the bottom 90% of earners.

Unfortunately our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012.

That is remarkable, given that its own market capitalisation actually shrank by $7.5 billion in 1999.

The income of the bottom ninety-nine per cent actually shrank 0.4 per cent.