Sentences with phrase «one's former size»

Five years after skyrocketing fuel prices and turmoil in financial markets knocked auto makers into a tailspin, the U.S. market has recovered to its former size and character.

The Contemporary Christian Music industry has shrunk to a third of its former size.

When what was then «Christendom» disintegrated from internal weaknesses which Christianity did not fully remedy, and by pressures from invaders, it shrank to about half its former size.

Once I stopped nursing, my breasts returned to their former size.

Your breasts will return to their former size after weaning.

Once your regular milk comes in on about the third or fourth day after birth, your breasts will transform from heavy to humongous as they fill with fluid and swell to three times their former size.

Dorset East constituency was reduced in area to about half its former size, with the northern part of the pre-1918 seat being transferred to Dorset North and the southern part to Dorset South.

Structurally, Rubio's stomach is one - tenth its former size.

By the 1990s, the Aral had shrunk to less than half its former size and was dangerously salty.

Coho salmon populations have fallen to less than 5 per cent of their former size along the coast of Oregon and northern California.

Research and development has also been a serious casualty of the privatisation process, with famous and respected departments slashed to a tenth of their former size by chief executives, fearful of their shareholders rather than acting for the long - term interests of the company.

What once blanketed 1.3 million square kilometers and ranked as one of the world's largest tropical forests had shrunk to 8 % of its former size by 1973, when protective laws were put in place.

Apparently, it contains high levels of prostaglandin which stimulates involution (an inward curvature or penetration, or, a shrinking or return to a former size) of the uterus, in effect cleaning the uterus out.

And because adipose tissue — which, remember, is actually a major endocrine organ, rather than an inert piece of tissue — remains, the skin has no reason to return to its former size and elasticity.

Castrations usually have two small incisions near the top of the scrotum with purple surgical glue present — the scrotal sacs may swell almost to the pre-surgical size for up to 5 days after surgery and then gradually reduce to a fraction of their former size.

Intensive whaling from 1850 to 1874 and subsequently from the turn of the century until the 1930s reduced this population to some unknown fraction of its former size.

Today Night Gallery inhabits a space six times her former size, divided by an array of white walls at playfully odd angles.

The lake itself has shrunk to nearly half of its former size in the last 170 years.

Astronauts can gain up to two inches in height while spending extended time in space; alas when they return to Earth the strong pull of gravity compresses their spines again and they return to their former size.