Sentence examples for population shrunk from inspiring English sources

London's population shrunk from 8.6 million at its highest point in 1939 to 6.5 million around 1985.

According to the census in 39 areas of the country, the population shrunk, while eight logged growth.

Devastating levels of deindustrialization left Flint with high debt, unemployment and crime from the 1990s onwards, while the urban population shrunk steadily.

Friedman says reformers who joined the government after 2014 helped him gain access to the prisons — including to facilities that were shut down as the inmate population shrunk.

The black population shrunk by double digits in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, in central Harlem and in South Ozone Park, but jumped in Canarsie and Flatlands, Brooklyn, and in Springfield Gardens, Queens.

One intermittently rainy day we drove about 20 miles to Corofin to visit the Clare Heritage Center, an "interpretive center" dedicated to the period 1800 to 1860, which encompasses the potato famine and great emigration, when Ireland's population shrunk from 8 million to 5 million within 20 years.

Population shrank on average.

The population shrank by 100,000.

What if the prison population shrank drastically?

Its population shrank from 1,100 to 40.

Last year, its working-age population shrank.