Sentence examples for shrink to less from inspiring English sources

Over the next 50 years, the sea could to shrink to less than half of its current size, officials say.

Under the terms of the Nielsen deal, the stakes of the buyout firms that own it - the Blackstone Group, Thomas H. Lee Partners, and the Carlyle Group, among them - will shrink to less than 76 percent from 97 percent.

If Congress sets aside as much for "emergency" spending as it has in the last two years, the projected 10-year surplus would shrink to less than $50 billion.

If these conceded lands are converted to palm-fruit plantations at current expansion rates, one-third of the land in the area will be growing palms and intact forests will shrink to less than 4 percent of land cover by 2020.

The United States corn crop is likely to be far smaller than expected, as late summer heat reduced yields across the Corn Belt, and the corn stockpile will shrink to less than a four-week supply by next fall, a government report said on Friday.

The analysis predicts that, with Chinese wages rising at 15 to 20 percent a year and with the continued appreciation of the renminbi against the dollar, the gap between the labor costs in Chinese coastal provinces and in America's lower-cost states will shrink to less than 40 percent by around 2015 — and could lead to the creation of two million to three million jobs in the United States.

Debt spreads have shrunk to less worrying levels.

Now the number has shrunk to less than one-tenth of that.

By the beginning of the 21st century that fraction had shrunk to less than one-fourth.

The output gap has shrunk to less than 1% of GDP.

By the end of last year, the premium had shrunk to less than 40percentt.