The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone--the huge swath of oxygen-starved, nearly lifeless ocean that appears off the Louisiana coast every summer--was smaller this year than last, the first time the zone's maximum extent has shrunk since 1993.
The company has grown rapidly as much of the rest of the recorded music industry has shrunk; last year Concord had a projected $100 million in revenue, 10 times the level of 2003.
As a share of the budget, defence spending has shrunk since 2001.
Certainly, no one thinks the problem has shrunk since May 2004, when the European Federation of Accountants (FEE) was told that that sort of sum was going missing.
Over the years, the portion of students who are children of United Nations employees has shrunk; today, they account for 38percentt of the students, and the rest are foreign and American residents of the New York region.
The title of this erratic but enthralling travelogue refers to the attempts of fishermen in Central Asia to pursue the receding waters of the Aral Sea, which has shrunk, since 1960, to less than a third of its original size.
The primary public sector surplus has shrunk since 2012 and is unlikely to reach its goal for this year (Chart 5).
In addition, pension spending has remained high as a share of GDP because of how much Greek GDP has shrunk since 2009.
The gap between male and female gamers has shrunk since last year's report, which said 45percentt of gamers were female and 55percentt were male.
Does the size of your favourite Christmas treats seem to have shrunk this year?
All three of the Dachstein's glaciers – the Gosau, the Hallstätter and the Schladminger – have shrunk this year.
