"shrinking production" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a decrease or decline in the amount or rate of production in various industries or contexts. Example: Due to the economic downturn, the company has been experiencing shrinking production for the past year, leading to layoffs and budget cuts.
Even before today's report, Japan was flirting with recession, commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of shrinking production.
For Orbitz, the genesis of the shift was a need for "a model that better suits the pace of e-business," said Jeffrey Davidoff, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, by "shrinking production windows from months to weeks or days".
But prices will remain in the top half of OPEC's target price band of $22-$22-$28arrel because steadily rising non-OPEC production will be sufficient to meet the additional demand and offset OPEC members' desire to raise prices by shrinking production quotas from their current 24.5 million barrels a day.
MacNeil denied that work had been moved elsewhere and attributed the shutdown to shrinking production of older-generation commercial aircraft.
By studying the arrival times of P-waves and S-waves at 22 seismograph stations, the researchers could pinpoint the shrinking production area of The Geysers.
If aggregate demand shrinks, production and employment will decline and there will be downward pressure on the price level; if aggregate demand swells, there will be an inflationary problem.
This month Cessna, maker of the popular Cessna Citation, said it would lay off an additional 2,000 workers — its second round of cuts — and that the company would probably shrink production in 2009.
Hoya has huge world demand for its patented process for melting and annealing optical glass, which shrinks production times from 26 days to three days.A third group to watch are those that respond to customers' changing tastes with a stream of improvements.
At the same time, in a last-ditch effort to shore up shrinking regional production bases, Ofcom will from next year impose an out-of-London production quota on all public service broadcasters.
In particular, high inflation, shrinking agricultural production and H.I.V.-AIDS have taken a severe toll on the population.
The company blamed shrinking auto production, reduced construction projects in emerging economies and a sharp fall in commodity prices.
