Sentence examples for shrank to almost from inspiring English sources

And the sea ice still shrank to almost the same extent.There is no serious doubt about the basic cause of the warming.

It was the beginning of nearly a decade of precipitous hardship for many Cubans, as the economy shrank to almost nothing.

On a separate front, the board on Thursday continued poring over challenged ballots, and Mr. Coleman's earlier lead of 192 by some counts shrank to almost nothing.

Trades had shrunk to almost nothing.

Ms. Martinez said her fiancé, the father of the children, was a roofer whose work hours had shrunk to almost nothing.

But civil servants, like teachers, nurses and bureaucrats, saw their pay shrink to almost nothing and many abandoned their jobs.

Later, as things heated up, the space could shrink to almost zero, the figures crowding the image like fish in a too-full aquarium.

An ABC News-Washinton Poll Poll released today showed that with Mr. Perot in the race, Mr. Clinton's lead over Mr. Bush would shrink to almost a statistical dead heat.

"They thought it was a pity and a waste that after all of this and all the money spent and all the bases built that they would shrink to almost nothing.

Moreover, tumors never became resistant to endostatin, said Dr. Folkman, who added that he had given the drug to mice with large tumors and they had shrunk to almost nothing.

But for those who served between 1984 and 1999, the proportion had shrunk to almost one in three, according to a study last year by the Presidential Appointee Initiative at the Brookings Institution, which I serve as an adviser.