Sentence examples for shrinking a few from inspiring English sources

Will all those years of exercise and weight lifting prevent me from shrinking a few inches in height?

She tried to tear them open with her teeth, apologizing all the while — prison, she says, wreaks havoc on manners — and, when that failed, stuck her head out the door and asked the guard, "Do you have a pen or something I could stab this with?" Haysom told me that she'd had a great shrink a few years ago who helped her come to terms with her mother's abuse.

We propose that the embryos were subjected to a loss of mechanical support when they were removed from the uterus and therefore start to shrink a few minutes after removal.

Beyond simply consolidating because the big companies are, Daniel B. Brewster, the chief executive of Gruner & Jahr, said that magazine ownership was shrinking to a few players for two reasons specific to the industry.

However, since the lateral dimensions of complementary MOS devices are shrinking to a few tens of nanometers or below, for a detailed and profound characterization, advanced methods with a large lateral resolution are required.

China's working-age population -- the engine behind its prolific growth -- will start shrinking within a few years.

Towns shrank to a few houses clustered behind city walls.

But, yes, all our lives can (and mostly do) shrink to a few words.

By the 1970's Mr. Kleiber's repertory had shrunk to a few works in which he specialized.

In accordance with our first communication, the Red Army had counted on several weeks, which had now shrunk to a few days.

Slowdown is not recession: German industrial production may shrink for a few months, but the economy as a whole should keep growing.