Sentence examples for the number shrank from inspiring English sources

Nearly 200 protesters turned out for the rally Tuesday night, but the number shrank to around 50 by midnight as temperatures dipped toward freezing.

If you account for Harvey's age, 24, and lack of experience, the number shrinks to three pitchers.

The number shrinks when it's presented as the "Obama health care plan," which means the propaganda has been quite successful.

But if you take a closer look and ask how many of them are seriously impaired by this, the number shrinks to 8percentt.

And maybe we need a boost: women consistently make 79 cents to a man's dollar in this country, and the number shrinks even more when the sample size includes only Latina or black women.

More than 80 candidates had declared their intentions to run in the election, though that number shrank to 16 by Election Day.

The numbers shrink even further when American-born 7-footers are considered.

But when you look at a broader group of companies, the numbers shrink: Only about 36 percent of large companies, or those with more than 200 workers, offered the coverage in 2009, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey.

In terms of individual votes, however, the party's numbers shrank, to over 28 million votes compared with almost 32.4 million in 2011.

The number will shrink again in 2004.

By 1938 the number had shrunk to half.