Sentence examples for shrunk in numbers from inspiring English sources

By this time, Union forces had shrunk in numbers because of yellow fever and the capture of some men.

Once a common brand of criminal, the lush workers have shrunk in numbers over the years, from countless to something closer to 109, the Police Department's number of known offenders arrested since 2006.

The vanishing individuals range from the exquisite garden tiger moth, once common and now shrunk in numbers by 95 per cent – I remember it well, but haven't seen one in England for years – to the turtle dove, just as lovely, down 93 per cent in numbers and on the high road to extinction.

The crimes that are attended by an officer in person have also shrunk in number.

According to Mintel, the market research group, books are the most popular Christmas present under £20 and for independent bookshops, which have shrunk in number by a third to 987 since 2005, Christmas-present books – predominantly biographies and cookery books – are vital.

Meanwhile, iconic middle-income suburbs are shrinking in numbers and prospects.

Among the other groups shrinking in numbers are whites, blue-collar residents and younger people.

The alliance has been painstakingly negotiated in the very decades when many mainline Protestant denominations have been shrinking in numbers and influence.

The immigrant Brazilian farmers are practicing large-scale mechanized agriculture, mostly growing soybeans; that offers little work for the peasants and is leading their communities to shrink in numbers.

"I just want to assure my fellow Catholics that, as priests shrink in numbers," he writes, "congregations do not have to feel they have lost all connection with the sacred just because the role of priests in their lives is contracting".

Older workers will not disappear, or even necessarily shrink in numbers, but they will now have to share power with fresh-faced youths.There has been nothing like this since the advent of the railroads and the "Go west, young man" spirit they created, from which rose the Rockefellers, Morgans and Carnegies.