The viewscreen showed the Genesis world slowly shrinking behind them.

For many centuries, their numbers had been slowly shrinking.

The community had been slowly shrinking for many decades, but developers began buying the available land and houses in the 1970's.

"The fact that the force is slowly shrinking away doesn't concern people the way it should."

As time passed, the human population slowly but steadily shrank.

As of 1997, its surface area was 3.95 hectares, but the lake is slowly shrinking in size.

Grain supplies have been shrinking slowly since 1985 for three reasons.

A giant container ship had passed them earlier, headed for Houston, and was slowly shrinking in the east.

"As the industry continues to slowly shrink, there are going to be a lot of unhappy people."

With its declining birth rate, Hungary's population is slowly shrinking.