Sentence examples for half shrank from inspiring English sources

Of the 18 different industries the trade group studies every month, half reported growth in August, and half shrank.

Now she is half shrink, half photographer, and her photos fill a tender niche, somewhere between glamour head shot (trying too hard), drunken wedding snapshot ("That's me on the lower left"), and transmogrified author photo (see Jonathan Franzen).

People said, 'give us a call when you're out of bankruptcy.' " The company cut its sales force in half and shrank from 2,100 employees in late 2000 to 1,500 employees today.

It reduced the number of players from four to two and cut the number of channels the satellite industry could carry in half by shrinking its airspace from 50 to 25 megahertz.

With Coach Jim Calhoun stalking the sideline for a second straight game, UConn beat back DePaul after looking heavy-legged in the first half and allowing a 24-point second-half lead shrink to 9 with about seven minutes left.

Then, production problems caused GlaxoSmithKline to cut its run by half; Novartis's shrank by 10percentt.

William Ware Theiss William Ware Theiss, the series' original costume designer, said that the uniform tops shrank half a size with each dry cleaning.

Orica reported Monday its first half-net profit shrank by merely 2% from the previous year.

Tumors shrank by half in 13 of those patients.

Swollen after a century or more underwater, it later shrank by half.

As the music industry shifted from CDs to online downloads, Mr. Phemister's business shrank by half.