My jeans shrank.

The Fish that Shrank

My sweater shrank in the wash.

My jeans shrank in the wash.

My jeans shrank after I washed them.

My jeans shrank after I washed them.

This dress shrank, and what's more it faded.

Indeed, the economy shrank by 3.5 year on year in the first quarter.

For the first time since 1986, Tunisia s economy shrank in 2011, by 1.8 .

Elsewhere in Asia, Singapore s economy shrank for the second time in three quarters at the end of 2011.

In the second quarter, the German economy shrank at an annualized, seasonally and calendar adjusted rate of 2 .

Is it any wonder that the Greek government shrank from this horror and chose the safe option of austerity?

But, while global economic integration did not regain its 1914 level until half a century later, military globalization grew as economic globalization shrank.

This margin shrank dramatically during the campaign, and the left retained power by the skin of its teeth, but the lead ultimately proved insurmountable.

The proportion of people living below the World Bank s poverty line of 1.25 a day shrank from 52 in 1981 to only 25 in 2005.

Economic growth plummeted from 13 in 1936 to 6 in 1937, and GDP shrank 4.5 in 1938, while unemployment rose from 14 to roughly 20 .

Revenue dropped 9 percent and its flying capacity shrank almost 13 percent in the first quarter, according to financial results released Wednesday by corporate parent Republic Airways Holdings Inc.

The last of the G7 economies, Canada, should have benefited from high energy and commodity prices, but its GDP shrank in the first quarter, owing to the contracting US economy.

It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime surveillance over currency manipulation, in particular its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.

She shrank together, flushed till tears filled her eyes, and seizing the ends of her shawl began twisting them in her red fingers, not knowing what to say or do.

In September 2014, the news agency Inferfax published a study of Sputnik s first 100 days online, finding that the search engine s initial audience shrank by 90 percent in that time.

That is considerably more robust than in the United States, where output per worker grew by just 0.37 last year, and much stronger than in Germany, where it shrank by 0.25 .

So, instead of becoming the principal reserve asset of the global system, the proportion of SDRs in global reserves shrank to a tiny fraction, rendering the SDR the monetary equivalent of Esperanto.

Over the second half of the twentieth century, the hungry of the Earth shrank from half of its three billion human inhabitants to less than a billion of the current 6.5 billion.

Over the past five years (Japan conducts full census surveys once a decade, with a partial count after five years), Japan's population shrank by nearly 950,000 people (by 0.7 percent) to 127.1 million people.

Serezha, who had always been timid with his father, now that the latter addressed him as 'young man,' and that the question whether Vronsky was a friend or a foe had entered his head, shrank from him.

In Japan, with an economy of about half the size of the US, growth forces remain weak. In the second quarter of 2008, the Japanese economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.4 , primarily due to weak exports.

The IMF seemed condemned to run out of income, in addition to losing itsraison d être. It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime surveillance over currency manipulation, in particular its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.