By the time he got to Aculco, just north of Toluca, his army had shrunk to 40,000.

Today union leaders in the forest industry are in a similar position - the army of lumberjacks is shrinking rapidly.

In the Czech Republic, the military has been squeezed as the army shrank from 160,000 to its current 65,000.

Because of widespread workers' strikes, by the end of the war the army had shrunk to only 12,500 men.

Each morning, when he wakes up, he finds his army has shrunk a bit more.

But the army and Civil Service are shrinking.

By then, the army had shrunk to 38,000 foot and 8,000 horsemen.

Since early evening, my army has shrunk by half.

With peace at hand, the army would shrink drastically.

By then, Guan Yu's army had shrunk in size from thousands until only a few hundred were left.