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Shrank


Definition:

  • () imp. of Shrink.
  • (imp.) of Shrink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
  • (2) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
  • (3) The Greek consumer prices index shrank by 2.9% in November, showing deflation accelerated after October's reading of minus 2.0%.
  • (4) All revisions indicated that the devascularized necrotic segment shrank to form a minute fibrous tissue residue, anastomosis was patent and continence was retained for colo-proctoanastomosis.
  • (5) In experiment one, 144 zygotes shrank to 32-36% of their initial volume in 1.0 M SPBS within 30 min.
  • (6) His brief grew and then shrank with his appointment as the BBC's "teen tsar" overseeing BBC Switch, axed as part of director general Mark Thompson's strategy review last year.
  • (7) MR cells shrank about 23% when all chloride was removed from the outside (mucosal) bathing solution.
  • (8) The sharp fall is partly due to the extra bank holiday in June (for the Diamond Jubilee), so could be a one-off... ...and as the data isn't as bad as feared, it might suggest that the original estimate that the UK shrank by 0.7% in the last quarter will be revised a little higher.
  • (9) As the programme got going most of the problems shrank in size whilst the problem of changing their practice routines to meet certain guidelines for quality of care imposed by the programme grew.
  • (10) Spain's economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter, putting it back into recession and with a long downturn in prospect as the government cuts spending in an attempt to wrestle down its budget deficit.
  • (11) Greece is expected to raise as much as €6bn this week to address its borrowing needs – including a much-discussed €3.2bn bond which matures later this month ( this FT piece has more details ) Updated at 10.45am BST 10.02am BST ITALIAN RECESSION CONTINUES Just in: Italian GDP shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2012.
  • (12) Although the extracellular space (ECS) shrank by approximately 50% during anoxia, the possibility that the increase in K+o and decrease in K+i were mainly caused by shrinkage of the ECS and swelling of intraneuronal space was excluded to a great degree because the changes in K+i and K+o during anoxia were relatively very large.
  • (13) Light cells shrank when NMG+ replaced Na+, supporting predictions of a Na(+)-dependent volume control system.
  • (14) RIF-1 tumors shrank to approximately half the volume at the start of therapy after only 3 days of treatment; mammary tumors took longer to respond, not reaching half the starting volume until after 11 days of treatment.
  • (15) But in April 2014, his show was taken off the air as the opportunities for criticism of authorities shrank.
  • (16) Tours was transformed, he says, when its high-speed service shrank the journey from Paris to just over an hour in 1989.
  • (17) Official figures will reveal on Thursday whether the economy shrank for a second successive quarter, from January to March, marking a triple-dip recession – unprecedented in living memory.
  • (18) The new data show that during the recent downturn the economy shrank by 6.0%, rather than the 7.2% previously estimated.
  • (19) The Japanese economy shrank by 1.3% in the last three months of 2010, and there are fears that its recovery could be knocked off course.
  • (20) Economists were most alarmed by data from France, where manufacturing activity shrank at the fastest rate in almost three years.

Shrunk


Definition:

  • () of Shrink
  • (p. p.) of Shrink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The charity said it had struggled financially because philanthropic and public donations had shrunk at a time when it had to meet the practical and emotional needs of an increasing number of high-risk vulnerable children who are not being supported by the statutory system.
  • (2) At the same time, for many on low pay the last several years have seen the cost of living soar as their wage packet has shrunk.
  • (3) Slim margin of appreciation The third issue is that the Court is, quite rightly, determined to make sure that consistent standards of rights are upheld across the 47 member states … but at times it has felt to us in national governments that the 'margin of appreciation' – which allows for different interpretations of the Convention – has shrunk ... and that not enough account is being taken of democratic decisions by national parliaments.
  • (4) If Heathrow were shrunk or closed, he says, the investment that has gone into the airport would be squandered.
  • (5) The concept of the "big society" in which the state shrunk and private or voluntary groups grew to fill gaps is also laid at Hilton's door as an over-arching election theme which few voters understood.
  • (6) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
  • (7) Germany draws around a third of its gas and oil imports from Russia; Germany is Russia’s biggest trade partner after China, even if trade volume shrunk in 2013 for the first time in years.
  • (8) Over the past five years the total budget will have shrunk from almost £9m to a little over £5m if these latest cuts go ahead.
  • (9) Hepatocyte mitochondria are swollen at 6 h and shrunk at 24 h of poisoning.
  • (10) A year later the same sample of 192 patients (shrunk by 63 patients due to releases from the clinic and cases of death, non availability) was reexamined by the same physicians.
  • (11) After 60 Gy local irradiation, the tumor was moderately shrunk with a significant reduction in vascularity.
  • (12) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
  • (13) Over the past two years, every income group has shrunk except for the extremes: those earning less than £15,000 a year and those earning more than £70,000 a year.” Simon Hogg, a Labour councillor in Wandsworth, added: “It’s wrong to pressure local families to leave Battersea to move to Birmingham.
  • (14) The epidermis thinned, sebaceous glands regressed, dermal thickness was reduced, horn-filled cysts shrunk, subcutaneous fat disappeared, and regression of the muscular layer occurred.
  • (15) Few English midwives, however, consider themselves "radical midwives" or agree with ARM that their role has shrunk and training suffered.
  • (16) At times he seemed to be suffering the same problem that Lineker experienced in 1992, when chances that would ordinarily be taken are rushed and the frame of the goal suddenly appears to have shrunk by a few inches.
  • (17) Mr. Catsambas noted that the public sector still needs to be shrunk as a result.
  • (18) TV budgets have shrunk since the days of Blackadder and Python.
  • (19) Figures released this week suggest that the extent of Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its sixth lowest level on record, prompting scientists to warn that manmade climate change was bringing the days of an ice-free Arctic closer.
  • (20) 3 Bake for 45–50 minutes until the cake has browned and the sides have shrunk away from the tin.

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