Sentence examples for it contracted by from inspiring English sources

Most economists think it contracted by more than that in the last three months of 2008 alone.

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

But in fact, according to the ONS's preliminary figures, it contracted by 0.4% - the sixth drop in a row.

It contracted by 1.6% in the first quarter, compared to the same period last year, and is expected to shrink by as much as 2% in 2015.

GDP rose by 1.6% in 2011 (instead of 1.1%) and 0.7% in 2012; in 2009, the depth of the downturn, it contracted by 4.3% rather than the previously published figure of 5.2%.

In the third quarter it contracted by 1.3%.Stay informed this week and every week Sign up to receive The Economist's round-up of business and politics each week.

The working-age population in America will expand by some 45 million people even as it contracts by 100 million people in Europe and by 10 million in Japan.

When it contracts, by virtue of connections to the third and fourth parts of the duodenum, the suspensory muscle of the duodenum widens the angle of the duodenojejunal flexure, allowing movement of the intestinal contents.

Reeling from a recent bitter divorce and trying to stave off imminent foreclosure, Clay needs to land a career-saving IT contract by making a big sale to the king for a massive development in the desert.

An estimate of this proportion can be obtained by dividing the hospitalization rate among all subjects with influenza (regardless of where it was contracted) by the proportion of all subjects who become infected (regardless of where it was contracted).

It is contracted by inhalation.