Sentence examples for slowly shrank from inspiring English sources

The vaunted US "middle class" – so celebrated after the second world war even as it slowly shrank – is now fast evaporating, as the economic crisis and the government's "austerity" response both favour the top 10% of the population at the expense of everyone else.

The number peaked at around 250 in the 1840s and 1850s 200 in Edo alone and slowly shrank following the opening of Japan until about 40 remained at the opening of the 20th century.

Moreover, GCV treatment 10 days after cancer cell injection (GCV d10) slowly shrank established tumors, suggesting not all cancer cells underwent rapid apoptosis but rather some underwent senescence.

Its orbit was slowly shrinking.

Novell's legacy enterprise networking business is a slowly shrinking cash cow.

The gulf between the transhumanists and the scientific community was slowly shrinking.

If combined with stronger growth abroad, then the current-account deficit could slowly shrink.

It is slowly shrinking, like the town of about 500 itself.

In part it's because the cultural world has been slowly shrinking for decades.

Slowly shrinking attendances for the weekend have persuaded clubs to try it as a curtain-raiser for the season.

Some countries, including Russia, Japan and Saudi Arabia, still cannot abide harm reduction but the number of these countries is slowly shrinking.