Over time, amphibians shrank in size and decreased in diversity, leaving only the modern subclass Lissamphibia.

Tell Brak shrank in size by 75 %.

Canaan in the Late Bronze Age was a shadow of what it had been centuries earlier: many cities were abandoned, others shrank in size, and the total settled population was probably not much more than a hundred thousand.

But as integrated circuit technology shrank the size and cost of computers in the 1960s and early 1970s, and the memory requirements of AI programs started to exceed the address space of the most common research computer, the DEC PDP-10, researchers considered a new approach: a computer designed specifically to develop and run large artificial intelligence programs, and tailored to the semantics of the Lisp programming language.

These included Hitachi ( HD68000 ), who shrank the feature size to 2. 7-microns for their 12. 5 MHz version, Mostek ( MK68000 ), Rockwell ( R68000 ), Signetics ( SCN68000 ), Thomson / SGS-Thomson ( originally EF68000 and later TS68000 ), and Toshiba ( TMP68000 ).

Johann Bode called it the Astronomische Fernrohr in his 1805 Gestirne and kept its size, but Baily and Gould subsequently shrank its boundaries.

) were relocated more than once as Indian Territory shrank in size.

The Reconstruction Treaties signed at the end of the Civil War fundamentally changed the relationship between the tribes and the US Government, and the Indian Territory shrank to about 1 / 2 its former size.

As the size and number of the armies grew and the technology to communicate and control improved, the difference between " military strategy " and " grand strategy " shrank.

Lewis Cass in 1819, sparsely settled Oakland was twice its current size at first, but shrank as Michigan's population grew and new counties were established.

As the school and town populations shrank in size, the school was moved into the 6-man football districts in which it did very well.

Although the size of noble households shrank slightly during the 16th century, the number of guests at the largest castle events continued to grow.

To emphasise the volume in the bustle, women's hats shrank in size.

As other counties and towns were created, the territory of both the county and Town of Batavia shrank to its current size.

Despite Rita's begging and pleading, Lord Zedd vaporized Rita's magic wand and shrank her down to the size of a toy before again exiling her into space in a space dumpster.

Its size, approximately in 1853, shrank by 75 % in 162 years, to about in 1971.

By eliminating the need for the milk container, the milking device shrank in size and weight to the point where it could hang under the cow, held up only by the sucking force of the milker nipples on the cow's udder.

Further renovations occurred in 1997 in preparation for staging soccer matches as part of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, which also in turn shrank the size of the playing field preventing any future Australian rules football games being played on the field.

The ball shrank from season to season until it was regulation baseball size, the mound was moved back to 60 feet, the basepaths were extended to 85 feet ( still five feet shorter than in regulation baseball ), and overhand pitching was allowed.

O ' Neil won his only two league titles in 1953 and 1955, with a last-place finish sandwiched between in 1954 as the Negro American League of the 1950s declined in quality and shrank in size, while in the process grooming a number of eventual major league players.

Slowly the empire shrank in size.

The effects of this subordination of Irish Parliamentary power soon became evident, as Ireland slowly stagnated economically and the Protestant population shrank in relative size.

Both the Chevrolet Monte Carlo in 1978 and the 1980 Ford Thunderbird shrank in size and sales simultaneously.

However, like Jimmy, her age regressed and she shrank back to a small child's size.

In 1981 it shrank to 6 members.

The man shrank before the hot fury, searching frantically for the answer.

The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee's army shrank with every battle, forcing it back to trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Grant began a siege.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

At times he rose, at other times he shrank to the ground, he moved as if he wanted to play all the instruments himself and sing for the whole chorus.

GDP shrank by around 5 % and unemployment jumped.

The island historically had extensive rainforest cover, but the area shrank due to heavy logging for the Malaysian plywood industry.

The decades of Manchu conquest caused enormous loss of lives and the economic scale of China shrank drastically.

The economy shrank by 4. 5 % with unemployment at over 20 %.

As the climate became more arid, Lake Amora shrank and became saltier.

Under Mahuad's recession-plagued term, the economy shrank significantly and inflation reached levels of up to 60 percent.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to financial constraints and a lack of serviceable equipment, the navy temporarily shrank from about 1, 200 personnel to around 850, but the numbers soon rose.

Current GDP per capita of Guinea shrank by 16 % in the Nineties.

The separate species and subspecies developed from a single type of gorilla during the Ice Age, when their forest habitats shrank and became isolated from each other.

Egypt repelled its attackers with only a major effort, and over the next century shrank to its territorial core, its central authority permanently weakened.

The equivalent event in North America was the rebound of Hudson Bay, as it shrank from its larger, immediate post-glacial Tyrrell Sea phase, to near its present boundaries.

Deindustrialisation took place rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, as most of the traditional industries drastically shrank or were completely closed down.

What little strategic value Albania offered the Soviet Union, however, gradually shrank as nuclear arms technology developed.

However, whilst the mid 1980s GDP per capita shrank by 23 % amid the Iran-Iraq War, GDP has now almost doubled since 2005.

The national economy shrank by 6. 76 % during the whole period, totalizing seven quarters of recession.

Due to intermarriage and low birth rates, the Jewish population in the US shrank from 5. 5 million in 1990 to 5. 1 million in 2001.