The party announced this week that its membership had shrunk to 725,000 from 800,000 as the year began.

The merger was intended to bolster the strength of the two energy workers' unions, whose memberships have been shrinking throughout the last decade.

Other estimates claim the membership never even exceeded 100,000 and even shrank to 80,000 by 1922.

A decade later, membership shrank to below 100, although it has recovered to about 120 today.

The membership shrunk in half, and the country club began to take in less money from the dining room and the bar.

In 1980, the Assembly had 37 members; in 1981 the membership shrank to 27 members.

Since that, it is supposed that membership has shrunk.

Over the past 20 years, membership in the auto workers' union has shrunk by half, to about 800,000.

As a result, by 1945, the Gard's membership had shrunk severely.

But the impact on wages is ambiguous (provided membership does not shrink below the critical level).