Most people buy level annuities, so their real incomes shrink as they get older.

This ongoing change in composition ensures that the average of pensioner income rises even while individual pensioners' real incomes shrink.

As disposable incomes shrink and the price of petrol stays high, that trend may reverse.

Nobles, too, felt their incomes shrink and the tax burdens fell heavier on them as well.

It even has a fleet of aircraft it could quickly dispose of if it needed to shrink fast.

Today environments where that strategy will work are fewer and the opportunities are shrinking fast.

It was soon clear, however, that his advantage was as slender as it was shrinking fast.

Supply would not start to shrink significantly until the market swung to a deficit of a million barrels per day, he said.

Some people in the independent sector admit privately that the sector could shrink significantly if there was a sustained improvement in the standards and choice of state schools.

While vacancies have shrunk significantly in investment banking, some other areas such as private banking and asset management have seen much smaller contractions.

Over past decades, their habitat and range has shrunk significantly and a recent spate of cold, wet summers has been disastrous for them.

Thankfully, six months later, tests showed the treatment had worked - the tumour had shrunk significantly.

Add the mushrooms and keep stirring as they darken and shrink slightly.

The pears shrink slightly as they cook, so add a further slice or two.

Your social group starts to shrink slightly, especially when your coupled-up friends get married or have arguments about buying a house.

Paper was a common choice; for more durable prints linen was sometimes used, but with time, the linen prints would shrink slightly.

Other fabrics are stretched by mechanical forces during production, and can shrink slightly when heated (though to a lesser degree than wool).

Massive irrigation efforts were launched that diverted a considerable percentage of the annual inflow to the sea, causing it to shrink steadily.

Factional infighting caused the party to shrink steadily from the early 1930s.

The glaciers, permanent snow cover and permafrost straddling the border have been shrinking steadily, and especially over the past five years.

Bright spark scientists are working on 'nanotechnology' projects that will drastically shrink the size of powerpacks.

Patients are able to cut their weight drastically by having a band fitted to shrink the size of their stomach, reducing the amount they can eat.

Many in the medical industry believe it will order significant changes, including the sale of hospitals to shrink the size of bigger chains.

Manufacturers often choose to shrink the size of products rather than increase the price because they believe shoppers are less likely to notice.

The government announced last year that it would shrink the size of the defence estate by 30 per cent over the next 25 years.