Sentence examples for could be shrunk from inspiring English sources

Using the endeohedral fullerene technology, they could be shrunk to the size of a microchip.

Apparently it was Lacan's view that the therapeutic encounter could be shrunk to but a few minutes.

When the consultant first called me, in November, explaining that Win had a tumour in her spine, that could be shrunk to relieve the pain but not removed, my first reaction was to try to have her transferred south.

"Some of that overtime budget -- I'm sorry, much or most of that overtime budget -- could be shrunk, and that money cold go into paying a cop tuition assistance programs, and paying for higher police salaries".

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).

After one of these encounters, he says, he agreed to sign a statement about his associates in the UK to avoid being subjected to a form of torture called the Honda, which involved being locked in a box-like structure whose ceiling and walls could be shrunk.

Now even that asset could be shrinking.

But PSA levels dipped in seven others, a sign that their tumors could be shrinking.

It couldn't be shrunk, but some production assistants promptly spread some mangy coffee cups, half-eaten cinnamon rolls and vintage newspapers around it.

The logic circuit is about one-15,000th an inch wide -- larger than the equivalent silicon structure -- but Dr. Avouris said that it could eventually be shrunk so that 10,000 nanotube transistors fit in the space taken up by one current-day silicon transistor.

The story goes that Roche took his plans to the Department of the Environment on Christmas Eve and refused to leave until an official had approved them, and that he insisted builders started construction at the outer edge of the grid so Milton Keynes could not be shrunk by future funding cuts.