On top of that, the market for cell phones in Japan as a whole has been considerably shrinking in recent months.
Since the smartphone débuted (not all that long ago, remember — Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007), it has displaced or considerably shrunk the market for alarm clocks, navigation devices, calculators, and hotel key cards.
Nearly every captive elephant in India was captured from the wild, and in Kerala, captive breeding is almost unheard-of, mostly because Keralites overwhelmingly prefer their elephants to be male (since they have tusks), which considerably shrinks their mating pool.
Your masterly suit, pearl of your dreams, died a heroic death in a second-hand shop, and the same happened to all the unnecessary items in my luggage, which has now shrunk considerably for the benefit (I fondly hope) of economic stability..
The Igbo community, who make up the majority in the Kano suburb set aside for non-Muslim residents, has already shrunk considerably in the last few years because of an Islamist insurgency in the north-east.
Ironically this may actually be good for existing tech powerhouses, as those immigrants who are willing to come to America — a number which has surely shrunk considerably in the last month — will want to go to demonstrably pro-immigrant locales like California, New York, and Boston … meaning the best tech talent will get even more concentrated in those places.
His lofty agenda project has already shrunk considerably, and it might shrink even further -- instead of many white papers on individual issues, we might just end up only seeing Republicans put out a couple of pages of bullet points.
As well as being faced with the bedroom tax, her income has shrunk considerably because she has also recently lost her incapacity benefit after being assessed as capable of working in the newly tightened fitness-for-work tests – despite back and joint problems so painful that she has been prescribed morphine patches.
"By the time these issues have commanded the attention of senior policy-makers, the menu of options has shrunk considerably and the costs of action have risen".
The money is especially welcome, he said, because state financing for coastal restoration has shrunk considerably, even as relentless population growth has put pressure on fragile marshlands and waterways and wildlife habitats.
Pensions and health care costs, however, continue to be an albatross for a company that has shrunk considerably over the last several decades and has many more retirees than active workers.
