Sentence examples for contracted by a third from inspiring English sources

It contracted by a third in the mid-1990's, and the financial system all but collapsed in 1998.

The island's financial industry contracted by a third over the same period, and the number of its clients fell by a sixth in 2014 alone.

Mr. Putin pointed out that even though the Russian and Cuban economies have contracted by a third or more in the past decade, the two countries still carry on nearly $1 billion in trade a year, mostly in barter by which Cuba receives Russian oil and sends much of its annual sugar output to Russia.

In 2014 its economy probably contracted by a tenth and its currency, the hryvnia, lost about half its value.

Such reforms would come as budgets are being squeezed and staff shed: the Border Force is expected to contract by a fifth between now and 2015.

Net flows into India contracted by nearly a third, to $23.7 billion.

However, if rubella is contracted by a pregnant woman during the first trimester of pregnancy, it may cause a miscarriage or severe birth defects, known as Congenital Rubella Syndrome.

Only 3% of people think life is getting better in Zimbabwe, a country whose economy has contracted by more than a third in the past five years.

(The advertising market has contracted by more than a third since 2008).

By the turn of the century, the industry already had contracted by more than a third, amid deregulation of California's grid, according to the lab.

Those wages came to be a crucial part of an economy that has contracted by one-third through the intifada.