Sentences with phrase «shrinks by a few percent»
Unlike our Sun, these stars are not stable; their surface oscillates, meaning that the surface expands and shrinks by a few percent.
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Total union membership in the UK has now shrunk to its level in the 1940s, and is still declining by a few percent per year.
In all, the city's total workforce is expected to shrink by about 10,000 people, with the police force down to 34,413 members by June 2012 — a 12 percent drop from a decade ago — and the fire department down to 10,281, about 1,000 fewer than in 2002.
According to An Martel, head of the study and professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium, it is therefore not surprising that an afflicted population shrinks by more than 90 percent within just a few weeks and then disappears.