Sentence examples for shrank for the second from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere in Asia, Singapore's economy shrank for the second time in three quarters at the end of 2011.

Profits for the nation's 7,436 lenders rose nearly 50 percent, to $35.3 billion, compared with the period a year ago, while the number of banks at risk of failure shrank for the second consecutive quarter.

Cheaper oil was the biggest contributor to the fall.The economies of the euro zone shrank for the second quarter in a row in the third quarter of 2008, meeting a common definition of recession for the first time since the European single currency came into being in 1999.

Producer price inflation remained stable at 0.8% over the same period.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Economic forecasts Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Small stockmarkets ReprintsBritain's manufacturing slipped into recession, as output shrank for the second consecutive quarter.

Japan's economy unexpectedly shrank for the second consecutive quarter, marking a technical recession in the world's third largest economy.

Its economy shrank for the second quarter in a row on Friday, by 0.5%, which was more than expected, following the 0.3% negative growth it reported in the second quarter.

In the first quarter of 2001, America's private-sector financial deficit shrank for the first time.

In almost every case output shrank for the first two or three years of the process.

The survey showed new export orders shrank for the first time in a year.

In fiscal year 2002, the economy shrank for the first time in two decades.

Last month, the manufacturing sector shrank for the first time since January.