Now these have gradually shrunk to nothing.

Rallies shrank to one tenth their previous size.

Today, shared interests have shrunk and values have diverged.

Inequality has diminished, though from astronomically high levels.

During the past decade, the country's limited forests have decreased at an alarming rate.

All political rights for the vast majority of the population were effectively curtailed.

But the commercial life has been squeezed out of local villages.

Slavery and abolition Slavery was greatly reduced around the world in the 19th century.

As a matter of simple arithmetic, we know that the rest of the world is running correspondingly smaller surpluses.

Alarmingly, this research has decreased over the last three decades.

The poor use the bed nets effectively, and the burden of malaria comes down rapidly.

Actually, Chen s credibility may have been already damaged by his decision to seek refuge at the US Embassy.

...originally forests covered 36 percent of Ghana's territory but by 2000 this had shrunk to just 10 percent.

There is now a solid opposition in Venezuela and less distance between those who rule and those who want to rule.

The amount of pressure on the tissue is based on the size of the area of the contact the smaller the point of pressure, the greater effect it will have on the tissue.

Through the next month his original force of 450 was depleted by desertion until it was no longer a fighting force.

Some delegations observed that the situation in some countries was deteriorating, and that food supplies were critical.

We urged the High Commissioner to continue his efforts to broaden and diversify the donor base, and renewed our appeal to the international community to show sustained solidarity and generosity in sharing the burden.

Agriculture, which in the 1800 s accounted for more than half of national income, has shrunk to just a few percent.

It is unlikely that the adjustment process will be much faster in the US, where the manufacturing base has shrunk much more sharply.

Combat operations and clashes went from 190 to 26 monthly, 23 of them with origin in groups not related to the talks in Cuba (...)

By 1921, cultivated land had shrunk to 62 of the pre war area, and the harvest yield was only about 37 of normal.

By then, the city of Pagan, once home to 200,000 people, had been reduced to a small town, never to regain its preeminence.

The IMF s lending resources have shrunk dramatically relative to world trade and income compared over the past 50 years.

And precisely because the boundaries of our world have contracted, the horizons  the ambitions of many people around the globe have infinitely expanded.

The Group welcomed the fact that the time taken to fill vacancies had been reduced from 275 days in 1999 to 175 days at present and called for the further reduction of that period to 120 days, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 57 305.

Here in Finland, our aid decreased by 62 in the early 1990 s, a period that Finns still call The Depression.

With a larger group, real discussion is lost with a smaller group, meaningful regional representation is difficult.

Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has launched a comprehensive program to restructure its defense industry, which has shrunk dramatically since the Soviet era.

Over the past century, ethnic distinctions have diminished to the point where there is no significant inter ethnic friction, although regional divisions still occur.

However, the protection and control of the sources of radiation is also being improved, so it is believed that the risks of exposure to ionizing radiation for persons working on the sources of radiation are reduced.

Cuba's material possibilities had been severely limited by the economic, financial and trade embargo, which only two weeks previously had been overwhelmingly condemned by the General Assembly.

Unfortunately, the purchasing power of Europe s dollars shriveled during the 1970 s, when the costs of waging the Vietnam War and a surge in oil prices ultimately contributed to a calamitous rise in inflation.

Indeed, people in Beijing and Delhi are showing more equanimity than most would if their incomes were cut by 40 .

Violence decreased most significantly with the disbanding of the right wing paramilitaries, and with the decimation in battle of the left wing FARC guerillas and the decapitation of its leadership.

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.

Recent Statistics Canada reports show that the wage gap has been reduced for full time female workers in Ontario by approximately six percentage points since l987.

Cuba now has fewer possibilities of accessing markets in order to acquire the advanced technologies needed to train Cuban athletes, resulting in significantly higher prices.

And these stars have compressed down to maybe something like 12, 15 miles wide, and they are black holes. And they are gobbling up everything around them, including light, which is why we can't see them.

Dianchi Lake near the provincial capital, Kunming, is so shrunken and polluted that the city faces a serious water shortage.

In the legislative elections on April 9, the presidential contest on April 16, and state elections ten days later, the PDP s dominance was indeed reduced.

Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.

Even as temperatures have risen, heat related deaths have decreased, owing to improved health care, access to medical facilities, and air conditioning.

As exchange markets became ever bigger during the past 20 years, most commentators assumed that central banks ability to influence exchange rates through intervention had shrunk radically.

By contrast, the share of ordinary US exports to China shrank, suggesting that China s rebalancing is likely to be associated with continued large bilateral surpluses with the US.