Sentence examples for shrank to about from inspiring English sources

Brobeck shrank to about 500 lawyers last week from 900 lawyers in 2000.

Over the next two decades, though, that debt shrank to about a quarter of gross domestic product, largely because the economy went gangbusters.

That year, the video-rental market shrank to about $7.46 billion from about $7.72 billion the previous year, according to Kagan World Media, a research firm.

The budget, about $3.5 million in 1994, was cut about 60 percent initially and is now about $800,000, while the staff shrank to about one-fifth of its 1994 size in the same period.

Its wings shrank to about ten inches, as its body grew; in island geobiology, mammals tend to grow smaller over evolutionary time (like Borneo's pygmy elephants), while birds expand.

In 2008 the museum's endowment, which had been repeatedly tapped to pay for operating expenses, shrank to about $6 million, one of the lowest levels since the museum's founding, from $40 million at its height.

By last year it had shrunk to about 2.8 percent.

By next year, as cash flow grows, that ratio could shrink to about 2.4, Mr. Bourkoff said.

The newsroom staff of The Herald has shrunk to about 380 now from about 410 at the beginning of 2001, said its publisher, Alberto Ibarguen.

By 2012, HSBC predicts, their share will have shrunk to about four-fifths as big, "organised" stores such as Reliance lure shoppers.Most clothes shops in the organised sector sell expensive brands for wealthy buyers.

"It is tough when you're looking from the outside in," said Officer Angel Lopez, a patrolman on the city's police force, which has shrunk to about 120 today from 151 in 2010.