Such loans soon shrank to a pittance as double-digit inflation raged, while leaving deposit owners with mere remnants of their savings.
en.wikipedia.org Year, after year, though, as advances came in mechanization, rationalization and automation, the number of quarrymen and quarrywomen shrank.
en.wikipedia.org As the standing rows on the entire northern, the lower eastern and the lower western grandstands were converted into seats, the capacity shrank to 42,800.
en.wikipedia.org Immediately after the depression of the 1890s, the population shrank to half this size, but recovered by mid the 1950s almost to its peak level.
en.wikipedia.org The edges of the shield were bound with stitched rawhide, which shrank as it dried improving structural cohesion.
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