Sentence examples for shrunk precipitously from inspiring English sources

The economy has shrunk precipitously this year.

The small-car market has shrunk precipitously since Saturn's first car came out in 1990, although it rebounded slightly with the rise in gasoline prices last spring.

It would have greatly helped the phone maker, which has shrunk precipitously for the past few years.

When he was charged in Wisconsin with molesting a female student, his following shrank precipitously.

After the demise of Communist power in the Soviet Union in 1991, Pravda's readership shrank precipitously.

Even as, in the nineties, the size of the armed forces shrank precipitously, the number of outside contract workers kept growing.

Other indigenous species, like the desert tortoise and the enormous Colorado pikeminnow, have seen their home ranges shrink precipitously, and natives like the Mexican gray wolf and the California condor, both reintroduced in the 1990s, face uncertainty.

And studies by the Pew Research Center and others indicate that religious denominations that have become more friendly to secularism are shrinking precipitously, while the evangelical churches that resist dilution in their theological beliefs and practices are holding their own or growing.

Prior to 1986, dolphin populations had been shrinking precipitously.

HP's share of the digital camera market in the U.S. shrank precipitously this year from 7percentt at the end of 2006 to 4percentt at the end of June, according to the latest figures from IDC.

New Home Construction Lending -- Policies and regulations have precipitously shrunk the availability of acquisition, development and construction financing to meet the future housing needs of America.