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shrinkages
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Plural of shrinkage
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The problem, analysts reckon, is that beyond 2014 shrinkages will no longer cut transistors' cost.In 2002 a dollar purchased about 2.6m transistors with features as small as 180 nanometres, or millionths of a millimetre.
It was also a time when humanity went through several drastic shrinkages of population, which probably applied selective pressures that forced the pace of evolution.
Here is a list of the changes — shrinkages — that have already started at the paper, and others that will take place in the coming weeks, as the newspaper, responding to a mandate from its new owner, Sam Zell, cuts its pages by fifteen per cent.
Now that Irish Spring, sold by Colgate-Palmolive, has apparently become the first brand of soap to reduce the size of its bath bar to 3.75 ounces — after a series of shrinkages that began at 5 ounces and whittled the bar to 4.75, 4.5, 4.25 and 4 ounces — how long will it be before the smaller hand bar, now at 3.2 ounces, becomes superfluous?
Shrinkages were observed at almost every ice-field in the Karakorum range, including the Purugangri glaciers, which are said to be the world's third largest body of ice after the Arctic and Antarctica.
Here and elsewhere, the shrinkages in the recording business narrow choices considerably, but evidently available as representatives of the public Shostakovich are two items conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.
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· Some of the clothes are unfortunately prone to slight shrinkage, so allow for about 10 per cent extra room.
Let us be clear, as a country we are sleepwalking into a period of strategic shrinkage, with David Cameron and Hammond seeking to do defence and security on the cheap.
By 2015 the shrinkage will be complete.
Climate data provides evidence this shrinkage did happen.According to Dr Thomas, therefore, culture was not invented once, when people had become clever enough, and then gradually built up into the edifice it is today.
With each change the Arctic surface absorbs more heat.On thin iceA simultaneous thinning of the sea ice is also speeding up the shrinkage, because thinner ice is more liable to melt.
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