As the population shifted from the city to the suburbs the enrollment in the school started to decline.

By the 1950s the population shifted northward and the relocation of the school was considered.

The building remained open until the population shifted in the mid-1910s.

The way the city keeps expanding, their population shifts all the time.

I never did know how many more the camp held, for the population shifted.

But no one knows precisely how much New York's population has shifted since the late 1980's.

Since the 1980s, however, population and jobs, especially those in the services sector have shifted into neighboring communities.

As word spread that the new lord was a Reader, the population shifted.

Over time, the world's human population has shifted from rural to urban areas.