Sentence examples for shrinking for the first time from inspiring English sources

In Japan, the economy was shrinking for the first time since the Second World War.

AIM, its market for international and domestic start-up companies, is shrinking for the first time.

In real terms credit is shrinking for the first time since the mid-1970s recession.

World trade flows are shrinking for the first time in two decades.

The Latin American economy is shrinking for the first time since 2009, with a projected growth for the entire region of half a per cent in 2016.

A whiff of hope came from Portugal, one of the countries at the heart of the debt crisis, as the economy stopped shrinking for the first time since October 2010.

In the first quarter of 2001, America's private-sector financial deficit shrank for the first time.

The survey showed new export orders shrank for the first time in a year.

In fiscal year 2002, the economy shrank for the first time in two decades.

Last month, the manufacturing sector shrank for the first time since January.

At the end of 2011, the German economy, the world's fourth-largest, shrank for the first time since 2009.