Sentence examples for shrunk around from inspiring English sources

The house had shrunk around me to a quarter of the size it ought to be, but if I crouched down low enough it was as if I could tumble backwards down the Alice in Wonderland rabbit-hole.

While the cottage had shrunk around me with the passage of time, here in the garden everything had grown riotously upwards and away, leaving me smaller, not larger, than before.

Gross domestic product has shrunk around 7percentt in the last five years and industrial output has fallen by 25percentt.

Turkey fits nicely in with the earlier stages of his European trip: as a struggling emerging market economy – expected to shrink around 1.5% this year, and with unemployment at over 13.0% – its prime target for the kind of assistance that the G-20 is hoping to channel through the International Monetary Fund.

Microsoft has promised to break out Surface revenue each quarter, so we'll know by the end of the year if Microsoft's entrance into the OEM wars will grow the pie, or merely fight for a slice as the desert shrinks around it.

By 2050, according to the more pessimistic government forecasts, the population will have shrunk to around 95m.

That amount has shrunk to around $70 billion, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, because the top-end tax increases and revenue from a stronger economy have helped shrink the deficit substantially.

The economy is set to shrink by around 6% this year.

That is one reason why the economy is expected to shrink by around 1% in 2015.

At the other end of the spectrum, war-torn Libya and debt-laden Greece will both shrink by around 5-6%.

Gartner, a market-research firm, reckons global handset sales will shrink by around 4% to 1.2 billion units.