The phrase "shrank further" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a reduction in size or extent, often in a comparative context.
Example: "As the temperature dropped, the ice shrank further, leaving only a small puddle behind."
Alternatives: "decreased more" or "contracted further."
Oil prices jumped today as already thin stocks of oil in the United States shrank further while the threat of war hung over the Middle East.
Australia's permanent skilled migration programme, cut by 14% to 115,000 places for 2008-09 due to the global crisis, shrank further in 2009-10 to 108,000 places, according to the OECD.
Meanwhile, the endowment, which was raided to pay for operating losses and shrank further in a bad economy, has dropped to $9 million from a recent high of $55 million.
Sales in this business fell 13percentt in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, to 2.73 billion euros ($3.49 billion), as the operators' subscriber base shrank further and the worsening economy caused telecommunications carriers in Europe and North America to cut investments.
These days the super-investor's admiration for Wall Street's most powerful firm, cemented by an investment during the recent crisis, puts him in a minority and one that shrank further when, on April 16th, the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) accused Goldman and one of its employees of fraudulently misrepresenting structured instruments tied to subprime mortgages.
But as the material cooled and shrank further and cracks grew downward into the solidifying slab, small cracks began to consolidate into large ones and the angles between them gradually shifted toward 120° the angle at which the most energy is released, the researchers report online this week in Physical Review Letters.
